The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-03-16
WHAT is YOUR ATTITUDE
TOWARD YOUR WORK ?

think, in particular-have the idea
that work and happiness are like oil
and water; they will not mix. If you
share that idea, the sooner you rid
yourself of it the sooner you will get
on to the trail that leads to success,
and until you do you cannot possibly
even be headed in the right direction.
Happiness is not a trust fund, a mo-
nopoly Of the idle rich. On the con-
trary, there are 10 rich persons to
one, I'll guarantee, who would be glad
of the right to work. So, first Of all,
consider your self a privileged char
acter in that circumstances have made
it necessary for you to work o your
living, instead of forcing you to find
a way to while away the time. Now,
then, make up your mind that you are
going to extract just IS much of that
valuable commodity, "interest," out Of
your "a hours as Mrs. Moneybags does
out of hers, or rather, as you think
she does, even though you do have
to spend eight of the "a hours in an
office, or a school room, or a factory,
or wherever it may be that you fin
ally landed a chance to work.
Every morning before you start to
work, and every night before you go
to sleep, l want you to perform some
mental gymnastics-did you ever no
tice a dog shake water off his back?
Well, then, in just that way, meta
phorically speaking, l want you to
shake out of your mind or conscious
ness all the petty worries and per-
plexities that you carried about with
you all day. You cannot do your best
work or get the satisfaction out Of
the doing that you should if you al
low your mind to be clouded all the
while with an undercurrent of little
worries, however trifling.
1t is a good plan, therefore, to line
them up before you, if they persist in
obtruding themselves so that you can
not sleep. Look each one squarely in
the face, SO to speak. Bring your
common sense and reason to bear
upon them, and decide what to do
about each, then, with the conscious
ness that worrying about them far
Their won't help any, you ought to be
able to turn over and sleep the sleep
of the conscience free.
Be up in the morning at least an
hour before you have to start out.
You will find that dressing slowly is a
great help to starting the day right.
In the meantime take occasion to ad-
just your plans for the day. Person.
ally, l always make out a written
schedule, and then cross off the items
as they are accomplished. Taking
plenty Of time for a few simple exer-
cises, or to sew tears, or do any of
the thousand and one other little
things that always confront a girl,
you will find this hour, I say, put
to better advantage than an extra
half hours sleep and then a dash for
the office would be.
Approach your work each day with
a will, a sincere interest. Even if it
is not particularly congenial work, try
to cultivate an interest for it, if only
in the way of regarding it as a step
ping stone to something better. In
that way only can you play the game
fairly, and you do want to play it fair,
don't you? If not, don't play it.
Don't regard your work, either,
solely as your employers work. 1t is
! your work just as much as the work
he is doing is for some one higher
up, presumably, yet is his. Remem-
Der we are all cogs in a big wheel,
and while each cog is necessary to
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pendent feature as we'll.
Keeu your mind on the work of the
present, but with the idea of progress
always running along with it. How
ever unimportant the work you are
compelled to do may seem, or how.
ever irksome, try to realize that you
are making bricks" all the time. You
are fitting yourself, if you are con-
scientious, for that position higher up
and don't forget this-it is bound tt
come.
Keep in mind the dignity of labor
and that whatever it is, to you worl
has a serious purpose. So many girls
work from day to day with the hope
which perhaps they would not admi
to themselves, that something viii
turn up to take them out of it. Tha
makes your work drudgery.
Make it your interest to learn tn.
details of your work. Keep poised
Learn to know and measure values
1t is n of the most valuable asset
in any business. Keep your mint
open. receptive, your intelligence
working, and keep your W coun
sci.
Learn to rely on your W judg
ment, but acquire that judgment b,
obtaining all the light upon the sub
ject that you possibly can.
A prominent business woman re
marked recently that women have no
enough respect for their WI opinions
and there is much weight in what sh
says. Women are too apt to be ma
chine-like. Even in these days of ad
vanced thinking, they are still in
clined to be clinging vines, to allo'
the stalwart oaks to assume absolut
control. 1t is a splendid thing t
know when and when not to asser
yourself, but that comes under. tn
head of tact, and a whole volum
might be written on the value OF tao
to the woman in business.
Have the courage of your own cor
victions, but be always willing to b
convinced of al error. Here's anotf
er thing. Be a grafter-to the es
tent o Railways being tout" for an
knowledge you may acquire from tn
other person that is calculated to COZ
tribute to your mental welfare.
Do not permit yourself to get int
a rut, or, If you do, don't allow YOU
self to stay there; and remember this
the chances are that no n will CON
along to pull you out. You'll have I
do that Yourself. and the time to do