The mirror., 1923-01-18
AS A MAN EXPECTETH so IS HE

AAdiIPohiS ~ASuNShy my SASoeSoe
lus to further endeavor was my favorite
teachers belief in me- Taking me by the
hand at parting, as he bade me goodbye,
he said: "My boy, l expect to hear from
in the future. Don't disappoint me.
believe in you; can see something in you
that you do not see in yourself"
There is only one thing more stimu-
lating, more helpful in the struggle for
success than the knowledge that somebody
we admire and look up to sees in us that
which others do not see, and that is, to
expect great things of ourselves. The diff
ference between what two people get out
of life, what they accomplish, and what
they represent to others, depends upon the
difference in what they expect of them
selves
A general who goes into battle ex-
pecting to be beaten will be beaten. His
expectation of defeat communicates itself
to his army, demoralizes it at the start
and makes it impossible for the men to co
their best. 1t is the same in the battle OF
life. To enter it with the expectation of
defeat is to be defeated before you begin.
If you wish to succeed you must show your
confident expectancy of success in your
presence. You must also live day by day
in the very soul of expectancy of splendid
things which are coming to you.
Working for one thing and expecting
the opposite can bring only one result
failure. Every time you say you don't
expect ever to be anything or to get any
where, or to accomplish anything worth
while, you are neutralizing the efforts you
are making to be or to get or to do what
you want. Our expectations must corre-
spond with our endeavor. If we are con-
vinced that we are never going to be really
happy, that we are destined to plod along
in discomfort and wretchedness, and to suf-
fer all our lives, we shall tend to get what
we expect by the law of attraction. To
long for happiness and yet always expect
to be miserable, to continually doubt our
ability to get what we long for, whatever
it may be, is like getting on train which
is headed east when we wish to 60 west.
We must expect to go in the direction of
our desire, Of our longing and effort, and
il we would succeed in what we are trying
to do or to be, we must turn our back upon
failure and blot out of our mind every
thought, every picture, every suggestion of
failure.
When through series of reverses and
disappointments man has lost his grip
upon himself, and feels convinced that he
cannot possibly get on his feet; when he
expects failure, there is only one thing
you can do for him-try to arouse his
hope; to restore his lost faith; to show
him that, being divine, there is something
in him which can never fail; try to turn
him around mentally so he will head to-
wards his desire; show him that he and
his Maker are one, and that, working to-
gether, they are majority in any situa-
ton.
accompanied by a letter in which the
writer says: ~ know the enclosed are
nothing like your articles, for I couldn't
write like you no matter how hard l
might try, don't expect you will want to
publish these but thought l would send
them along, because of the possibility that
you might"
Now, at the very outset, this writer pre-
judiced me against his articles by his self
expressed inferiority and the suggestion
that they were not worth publishing and
would probably be returned 1t was as
though young man should start out in
disheartened mood, to look for a job, dis
couragement lurking in his face, in his
every action and should say to a prospec-