Self Help

there shine the gleaming footprints, Where feet, too true for eagerness, have pressed. 14 FOURTH SUCCESS METHOD CLEAN UP YOUR MOODS WE meet persons every day who have found themselves, who have a plan, who have patience to wait, and yet they are not a success. They find one engagement, one position, one home, one friend after another, but they are never happy, never satisfied, and change and confusion is over them. What is the matter? Why are they not successful when they are filling so many of the success laws? This is the great question. Why? Surely the reason is not very apparent, and one has to direct careful and deliberate attention to their life before the question can be answered for them. After enough thought and attention has been given, the reason pops up like a "jack-in the box" clamoring for recognition, and we are amazed that we did not know it sooner. The answer is found in the unhappy disposition of the individual. Moods have wrecked tens of thousands. "Clean up your moods!" This is the slogan of the successful person. With a hateful disposition, no one can ever become a permanent success. Self-culture is not a myth. There are negative, destructive states of mind, that will destroy the finest genius if they are allowed to manifest and take part in the individuality. There are persons with dispositions so vicious that they are like biting dogs. No one is safe for a moment from the outbursts of their spiteful tongues and temper. Hasty temper has cost more than one person a good position; lost others a really valuable friend, and shut the door of grand opportunities. No one wants as a friend, companion, wife, husband, employee or employer, one who is likely to fly into a rage and lose their head at the slightest provocation. Every condition worthwhile calls for poised, calm, self-controlled states of mind. In these there is power and opportunity; in haste and rage there is nothing but lack of opportunity and waste of energy. I know a man whose temper is like a raw-edged blade, continually cutting everyone who comes near it. He has his whole immediate family cowed down and afraid of him; everyone sidesteps his temper. He is allowed to go on each day, bullying the household into subjection. 15 Visiting there one day, the gentle mother, afraid of the effect some New Thought ideas might have upon this big tyrant, cautioned me, saying: "Now be careful, don't make Al mad." She said it for days, until at last I said: "Who is Al? He is