Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-05
a Chance On the World
Opportunities Found By Those Who Seek Them

man who seeks it than it, is to 60
about seeking the man!
The people who complain that they
might get ahead If they had chance
in the world probably would not rec
ognize that chance if it stood full pam
oplied before them.
About the best means for making
opportunity is to perceive it. Some
times it turks far in the distance, be-
hind shifting clouds that hide it from
any but keenly discerning eye, and
sometimes it lies at the end of tortu-
GUS paths to which only the most
earnest effort leads.
Imagination is a wonderful force in
the life Of anyone who longs for the
opportunity to get ahead in the world.
No great undertaking leaps to life in
one sweep of effort and is completed
! in moment.
Imagination that can visualize a
completed Panama canal or a finished
etching at the same time that it plans
out the concentrated effort to get
them done is OF the sort that makes
for itself place in the world.
Most of us abuse ourselves with
fairy tales all through life. Some of
us put ourselves TO sleep at night with
little wonder stories OF splendid
and beautiful things. Wonder tales
would not be wasted If instead OF inn
agining the things were coming to US
we were to figure out ways Of going
to get theml
| Imagination of sane, constructive
sort demands effort Of like type, and
when you harness the two your suc4
cess is foregonc conclusion.
Suppose you who read put my little
theory into practice for just one day.
Don't indulge in day dreams about the
wonderful things which may be lurk-
ing just around the corner, but instead
march just around the corner and see
what little thread or clue you can find
| Leading to success.
We have all heard about the western
girl who has made tremendous sue
cess catching butterflies for collec-
tors; a number Of people have made
splendid livelihoods by cultivating nut
trees in soil where those never grew
before. Chicken farming, vegetable
raising and all sorts Of tasks so simple
as to be unusual have melted ample
support for people who have an mag
nation that can conceive of tasks
other than conventional desk posi-
tons.
Have you some clever idea that can
be turned into a marketable commo-
dityf Do you see place where the
methods OF your business Office might
be improved Have you little spare
time in which you can do some simple
task that will net you pin moneys
Bring your imagination to bear on
a practical use of your abilities. Out
of cookies better than mother used
to make" and homemade marmalade
and delicious pickles, three well-bred
women, quite unframed to work, have
frecently built three separate thriving
industries.
Never could they have done this IL
they had not possessed the imagina-
ton to see their chance in the world
and the grit and determination to go
after il.
II you wait to fall into luck you are
likely to fall into nothing more than
evil ways and the i'll luck OF conduct
ing your life badly. II you visualize
your chance and go after it, il may
eiude you for time, but in the end
you must necessarily achieve.
A chance in the world is a matter
Of the mind that conceives and then
carries out its ideas to legitimate sue
cess.