The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-11-21
SUCCESS: HOW TO ATTAIN IT

tanning II in its multiple lines, busi-
ness, the arts and sciences, agricul-
ture, etc. that one cannot set down
an ironclad formula for its attain
ment. But one can set down the fun
damentals with an absolute surety
that IL they are employed religiously,
with whatever degree of elacticity
necessary in each and every particu-
lar line of endeavor, success, supreme
success. will follow so surely as the
cart the horse.
There are six fundamentals. Three
are basic, health, industry and judg-
ment; the others are alertness, per-
sistence and determination. And the
most important of these are judgment
and alertness. All must be forever
on the job.
Health. industry ami judgment are
the cobbles on the royal road to sue
cess, the road that all of us in whom
ambition is not dead wish to travel
to the temple of success; alertness,
we will say, is our guide; persistence
our daily effort, and determination
our long-range effort
The temple of supreme success is,
of course, our goal We must be alert
to find the right. road; for there are
no sign posts marking the roadway;
we must be persistent in our efforts
to trayel it, doing each day with re-
ligious persistence that which we find
necessary to do to progress, and we
must have the far-reaching determi-
nation to reach the temple, no mat
ter what happens. Such a determi-
nation will carry us over the obsta-
cles and keep us marching onward
when moments of discouragements
come, as they surely will; for every
thing progresses by the method of
advance and retardation Even the
grass grows this way, grows a frac-
tion of an inch for five seconds, rests
for few seconds and then grows an
other fraction. We may take three
steps forward and then one backward.
Be not discouraged if at times you
are not apparently progressing This
is the very period when your mind is
gathering its forces and strength for
an advance. 1t assemblies its forces
in this apparently inactive period as
a general does his for an attack. But
the general is not idle, nor must you
be. Then is when you will need your
persistence, to keep daily at your,
work, whatever it may be, and soon
you will notice leap forward.
Let us consider. for moment, the
cobbles of the roadway. All of us
will admit that health is necessary to
success or happiness. OF course, there
are exceptions-which prove the
rule. So follow the rules for health
laid down in the earlier part of these
talks; here again you must be equal
ly persistent Industry will develop
your mind and fit you perfectly for
your tasks. II is a word for the phrase
practice makes perfect" And judg-
ment, the greatest of the foundation,
if not already acquired, can be acquir-
ed cultivated and perfected There
are no exceptions to personal success
without the exercise of good judg-
ment. You may point to the man who
inherited money and say that he is
a success, and | will point to him and
say that he is not he didn't make it
by his own efforts. But if he take his
Inheritance and build a greater for
tune then he must use judgment.
There are those among us who
have been chilled by disappointment,
who have lost ambition to be sue
cessful. They have honestly tried
but that is all. They did not use
judgment in their selection of the
means to reach success nor in their |
NhOiNo " attain H. iigf Nig
but try different plan.
To these | wish to offer the great |
est of encouragement; for they have
at least had the ambition to try, |
something more than some of the un-
tried have; those of us yet possessed
by indifference or smothered by con-
tentment with bare existence or, at
most. small success-the moles in
a velvet lined rut.
To the untried | urge the cultiva-
tion first of attention and interest
1t is my purpose to take up this
great problem of success and how to
attain in every detail. II is pardon
able for me to state that ! am sue
cess. | rose from the most humble
beginning I've been through the mill,
sustained all the kicks and hard
knocks, learned by actual experience
and, therefore. know whereof | talk.
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