The Washington herald., 1916-09-24
Think Of Yourself as You Long to Be.
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN,

ny ohlsoN SWEET mAHDENs
Do you realize that every time you allow
yourself to think you are failure, nobody,
your mental attitude drives away, kills the very
thing which you are pursuing? AS long as you
think you are nobody, there is no power in the
world that can make you somebody. Nothing
will save you from your condemnation OF
yourself, your own conviction of your nferiority,
your unworthiness, and you are really "queering
your success by your self-thought poisoning
Always think the best of yourself. Carry a
wholesome, whole, ideal picture of your health,
of your ability your success, of your happiness.
Never allow dwarfed, imperfect picture to come
into your mind.
The mind always goes ahead of the plan
and the plan always precedes the building,
the achievement If the plan is stunted the life
structure will correspond When you carry a
poorhouse atmosphere with you, you are attract
ing the poorhouse, the poorhouse conditions.
Holding the poverty thought keeps you in touch
with poverty-strcken conditions.
If you expect to win out in life you must
carry conquest in your very presence. You must
appear like conqueror. Your attitude must be
victorious.
Do not think of yourself as a human being
dwarfed in any faculties in any respect. Just
imagine yourself as filling out the ideal of man
hood the ideal of womanhood, because we
tend to measure up to our estimate of ourselves,
to ideal
Many of those who are ambitious to succeed
hold much of the time the failure model, the
mediocre mental attitude, and our achievement
cannot rise higher than our mental attitude.
Form habit of picturing yourself in the
position you long to fill, in the environment
which you yearn for. If you picture yourself
as filling a pigmys position you are not likely
to get into giants position.
One reason why the lives of many of us are
so starved, lean, pnched, and our achievement
so small, is because we think too meanly Of our
ability and possibilities, we set too narrow
limits to accomplishments.
The habit of forming a defective picture of
yourself will very seriously cripple your sel-con-
fdence and self-confdence, vigorous belief in
ones SELF is a tremendous asset, a vital force
in our life shaping.
If circumstances have forced you into an un-
happy environment where your powers do not
pull to their utmost and if you have taste for
something better, if you are struggling upward
to the light and are honest and sincere, you
will find opening. Aspire to something bet
ter that is the main thing.
1t is not so much a question of how far you
have travelled as which way you face. 1t is facing
life the right way with the right spirit, that will
put you forward
1t is a wonderful help to carry the victorious
attitude toward everything in ife the victorious
attitude toward work, the victorious atttuds
toward people, toward our environment, toward
obstacles, toward ambitions. Approaching all
Our problems, tasks, however small, with the vic
torious attitude, with the assurance of victory
greatly increases confidence and our achieve
ment force
Above all the victorious attitude toward our
selves, toward confidence our health, our con-
viction that going to be well, vigorous,
and able to carry out great life aim in the
spirit of masterfulness will have everything to do
with getting the most out of life, and making a
worth while career
Saturate yourself with the ideals, with the
convictions which you long to come true Keep
your mind filled with them and they must by
the very law of attraction force out their oppo-
sites, for like attracts like. If you hold the love
thought in your mind the hate thought must
go. Love and hate cannot live together Light
and darkness cannot live together A fit of the
blues cannot dwell in your mind if you persist
in holding the opposite thought, the cheerful
hopeful, optimistic encouraging, expectancy OF
good things thought in your mind. The blue
devils clear out when their antidotes enter the
mind.
Visualize the model man, and you will be
surprised to see how soon you will begin to
measure up to your ideal.
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