The Belding banner-news., 1922-02-08
THE PAST is GONE; GIVE
YOUR TIME TO THE PRESENT
(By G. r. Mellow, of National Cham
Der of Commerce.

(By G. R. Mellow, Of National Cham
ber of Commerce.)
The year A. d. 1921, with all Of
its failures and achievements, is gone
beyond recall. It is passed into his
tory and lives only in memory.
To recall the past for the purpose
Of indulging in vain regrets or
mourning over lost opportunities is
futile. But an honest review of the
last IL months by making mental
note of things left undone, of things
accomplished, of errors made and
errors avoided, and striking the bal
ance, that we may see how far we
have progressed, how much we have
grown in wisdom and understanding,
and how much more capable we are
tocay than we were on January i,
1927, will be valuable exercise and
a proper taking of personal stock
rhas will prove profitable to each of
US
Beyond this, however, we should
let the dead past bury its dead.
The new year is born, with new
hopes, new promises, new opportun-
tiles.
We live today. Yesterday is gone
Tomorrow never comes. The future
is but an indefinite extension of the
present.
Be sure that you live today and
that you do not spend its hours in
idle dreaming about how you are
going to live next month or next
year. Give all of your attention to
the present, even to the moment that
is now passing. Interest yourself
in what you are doing now and not
in what you intend to do tomorrow.
Appreciate the value of each gold
en- hour with 60 diamond minutes.
Desire for yourself the accomp-
lishment of full days work.
Decide that you will make each day
and hour yield its greatest value by
putting into it the best that you have
to give, not of your time, but OF
yourself.
Sell yourself to your work. Put
yourself into the job.
Effective activity is the result of
constructive thoughts and feelings.
You have decided to develop your
natural faculties that they may be-
come acquired powers.
You must continue to gain know
ledge of fundamental principles and
of the details of your own business,
and must continue to express your
more knowledge in more efficient
service. Thus will you grow in the
power to render satisfactory service
by becoming master of yourself and
master of your work.
Look not for praises nor COM
mendation. Be not cast down by
lack of recognition. Be true to
yourself and to your work. Be sat
isfed to do your best and to give the
best you have. Your reward will
come.
The most important thing for you
is that you should live, enjoy health,
honor, harmony and sufficient money
for a life of bodily comfort with
spiritual light and contentment. All
of this will be yours if you use your
brains cunningly and work aptly with
your hands, not for how much you
can get, but for how much you can
give of worth to the world, not as a
philanthropist, not as an altruist,
but as an industrial unit, worker
that is most vital of all intellectual
Observation-Disclosures for the ma
tion".
Let the business man cease to
function and the nation dies. For
his province is to see that the nation
is fed, clothed and housed, transport
ed, amused and supplied with the &C,
courterments of culture. All of this
he must do from hour to hour, from
day to day and from year to year.
Behold your opportunity. 1t does
not lie on some distant mountain
peak nor in some far-off land. 1t is
right here at your feet.
Be daily right in your thought and
90 what your heart and your hand
find to do here and now.