The mirror., 1923-01-18

came in but thought l would try. l
haven't much confidence in myself, and l
don't know that I can do work along this
line. 1 doubt very much if l should suit
you, but need the job and l will try my
best if you will give me chance, though
l don't believe you will, for l never have
any luck in hunting jobs and Eve been out
of work long time"
This may sound ridiculous, but it ex-
presses the mental attitude which multi
tudes of people hold toward the thing they
long for and are striving to attain. They
never expect to succeed in anything they
undertake never expect to be comfortable,
to say nothing of having the luxuries and
refnements of life. They expect only
failure and poverty, and do not under
stand that this very expectancy increases
the power of their mental magnet to at
tract these things, even though they are
trying to get away from them.
l was recently talking with man who
is good illustration of what this mental
attitude does for US. He told me that for
many years he had been working very
hard, with no vacations, no let-up in his
efforts; that he worked holidays and often
Sundays, and yet had never gotten any
where and never expected to; that, in fact,
things seemed to be in conspiracy to dis
appoint and defeat him. "Of course, you
haven't succeeded, my friend, because you
never expected to-" I said to myself.
Moreover, you never gave yourself fair
chance. Holding your nose to the grind
stone all this time, fearing and expecting
poverty, failure, disappointment, limitation,
defeat in everything, has made you mag
net for these things and drawn you into
{; failure rut"
We don't necessarily get what we work
for; it is what we expect, what we are
convinced we will get, that comes to us.
What you fear as we'll as what you long
for is headed your way. All your fears,
all your doubts, all your failure thoughts
are taking shape in your life molding con-
ditions to their likeness, and no matter
how hard you work for the thing you
want, if you hold constantly in mind
negative, discouraged and doubt thoughts,
if you expect failure instead of success,
evil instead of good, poor health instead
It good health, it is what you expect that
will come to you. In other words, your
thought is the creative force that molds
ind determines the conditions of your life.
"You must have birds in your heart,
Madam, before you can find them in the
bushes" said John Burroughs, the great
naturalist, to a woman who complained
that birds didn't come to her orchard,
while he counted score or more there,
even while she uttered her plant.
1t is what you hold in your heart, what
you believe will manifest itself to you, that
comes into your life. No one can accom-
plish anything great in this world who is
confident that he was made to do little
CHlnSS, dIlu IS SdtlSHcu WIFI dill
position, hopeless of being anything but al
underling all his life. On the other hand,
a man who expects great things of himself
is constantly trying to open little wider
the doors of his narrow life, to extend his
limited knowledge, to reach little higher,
to get little farther on than those around
him. He has enough of the divine dis
position to spur him on to nobler endeav-
ors he has quenchless ambition to make
the most of himself.
1t doesn't matter what we are trying to
do; it is the hope and expectancy of sue
cess that nerves us to put forth our greatest
effort; arms us with the assurance that
compels success. The greatest difference,
for instance, between the All salesman and
the mediocre one is the difference in their
mental attitude Beaten before he began"
didn't believe he was going to get the
ORDER" is written all over some statesmen.