Mental Attitude

Success is in the blood. There are men whose fate can never keep them down, they march forward in a confident manner, and take by divine right the best of everything that the earth gives.

But their success is not attained by means of the Samuel Smiles-Connecticut policy. They do not lie in wait, or scheme, or fawn, neither do they seek to adapt their sails to catch the breeze of popular favour. Still, they are ever alert and alive to any good that may come their way, and when it comes they simply appropriate it, and slowing not, move steadily on.

Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw your chin in, carry your head high, and fill your lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put your soul into every hand-clasp.

Do not worry about being misunderstood; and never waste a moment thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your own mind what you would like to do, and then without violence of direction you will move straight to the goal.

Fear is the rock on which we split, and hate the downfall of many a man. When we become fearful, the judgment is as unreliable as the compass of a ship whose hold is full of iron ore; when we hate, we have unshipped the rudder; and if ever we stop to meditate on what the gossips say, we have allowed a hawser to foul the screw.

Keep your mind on the great and splendid thing you want to do; and then, as the days go gliding by, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing the opportunities that are required for the fulfilment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the elements that it needs.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought that you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire.

Thought is supreme, and to think is often better than to do.

Preserve a right mental attitude the attitude of courage, frankness and good feelings.

Darwin and Spencer have told us that this is the method of Creation. Each animal has evolved the parts it needed and desired. The horse is fleet because he wishes to be; the bird flies because it desires to; the duck has a web foot because it wants to swim. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed.

I on the other hand believe it comes from the Almighty,the big guy, infinate inteligence, call it what you may, and whatever that is, always count your blessings.

Many people know this, but they do not know it thoroughly enough so that it shapes their lives. We want friends, so we scheme and chase 'cross lots after strong people, and lie in wait for good folks or alleged good folks hoping to be able to attach ourselves to them. The only way to secure friends is to be one. And before you are fit for friendship you must be able to do without it. What i mean is, you must have sufficient self-reliance to take care of yourself, and then out of the surplus of your energy you can do the same for others for others.

The individual who craves friendship, and yet desires a self-centred spirit more, will never lack for friends.

If you would have friends, cultivate solitude instead of society. Drink in the ozone; bathe in the sunshine; and out in the silent night, under the stars, say to yourself again and yet again, "I am a part of all my eyes behold!" And the feeling then will come to you that you are no mere vessell between earth and heaven; but you are a necessary part of the whole. No harm can come to you that does not come to all, and if you shall falter it can only be amid a wreck of worlds.

Like old Job,from the Bible, that which we fear will surely come upon us. By a wrong mental attitude we have set in motion a train of events that ends in disaster. People who die in mid-life from disease, almost without exception, are those who have been preparing for death. The acute tragic condition is simply the result of a chronic state of mind a culmination of a series of events.

You are what you think about most of the time as Brian Tracy said

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that makes us what we are.

By laying hold on the forces of the universe, you are strong with them. And when you realise this, all else is easy, for in your arteries will course red corpuscles, and in your heart the determined resolution is born to do and to be. Carry your chin in and the top of your head high. We are gods in the chrysalis.