The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-06
What Kind of Game Do
You Play?
Is Your Mind On the Real Game or On Dozen
Outside Ones?

real WORK
You don't need the editorial and ought to time
reading you quite that the best that is in is
being every and used give the best chance
possible
Among million there may be two that really
play game life good player plays the of chess
one or two million do need to talk think about
Importance of all the rest OF us do need
to realize what intense concentration might mean to
There isn't who doesn't WANT something that he
hasn't got There isn't that isn't planning in
amess way do something, to get something to BE
something And there really not that could not succeed
fairly WELL at least IF HE COULD ONLY KEEP HIS MIND
ON REAL THINGS AND OFF OF OTHER THINGS.
you two play chess good player and
bad player? bad player begins apologzng for him
self before the thing starts apologies all the through and
loses the end though the queen or other pieces be
given to him in advance.
The good player sits down. dnaturedly op-
ponent watches his first plans the thing out wins s
GAME
Life is game. Every of must play it whether he
wants to not And plays the game with the
same old partner-TME.
At LIES table opposite sits Time with his scythe and
Anything that your mind off the game gives
the advantage That to anything that does not at the
Time plays against ALL and he nearly always wins Mil
lions of and in the world saying every day.
I YOUNGER would do this IT would do that -
Every thinks would do he had live over
again hours during which he let Time win while
There mo use gong @ the n that nave
you will MAKE your mind concentrate your
Time is goodnatured old he plays fairly and le
nent He is relentless in his steady onward he
That is one day OFF THE BOARD But you can win and beat
him in the days that remain, if you will.
especially For their temptations are the
Much intelligence used up trying to get their minds away
Foolish fashions make them time their clothes
their hats THEIR LOOKS when those looks amount to moth
LOOK CLEAN, TO SHOW SELF RESPECT; nothing else
matters.
that THEIR WORK is their real occupation Take the
erage young man playing game Of cards. of baseball Of
any other MERE AMUSEMENT you should try at THAT
time interest him in outside thing kind OF
hat band color for the cravat he would
you Don't bother me- am busy NOW you will make me
How many know enough to say the same when they are
Many young act like who has forgotten the
road like drunken staggering the right and
left falling down. getting up and finally landing in jail in
stead of landing at home
The road before every perfectly clear
Of IN
Suppose were locked in jail and had to make his
out What would you think of him day he started
to bore hole ONE spot day started hole il
another spot and kept all his life starting little holes il
would think him unat Yet that is What IN e1
out of hundred do in this life.
We all of locked up here all of imprisoned By
conditions by which must bore hole if get
and amount to anything We try this way and try that
ONE WAY AND KEEP Pr an THAT WAY WE couE
GET OUT IN THE END.
We have talked this subject concentration before
shall talk about it again YOU CANNOT SUCCEED IN TIL
BIG THING IF YOU LET THE LITTLE THINGS TAKE VI
YOUR MIND AND YOUR TIME
your best thought to the selection of straw hat
and second best thought to the selection your clothes
and third best thought profound speculation
the races the result of the baseball competition VIVA
KIND OF THOUGHT is LEFT FOR THE REAL WORK?
And what in the world help you give you kline
OF success except steady grinding at the real work?
When you wake up in the morning say yourself, II
going keep my nothing else today
Don tnnk with how little work you can get through today
but, on the contrary HOW MUCH work you get il
Whatever you have undertaken do do it better
next man, and not only better than the man,
WELL AS 1T IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO
We do not share the theory that ANY man
achieve anything that he desires he will enough
That not true Edison could possibly
well Sargent, and Sargent could not possibly have do
veloped Edsons inventive genius
But neither Edison Sargent any other man that
hear about would have been success if he hadn't KEEP
ONE THING IN HIS MIND ALL THE TIME.