Success

ess that we mind it through a multitude of people who assist us, but these people are only a part of the plan of our business. They may assume complete control for that time and place, but if we drop them out of our consciousness, or worry about them, or break the law in any way, they will sometime become a rebellious factor and undermine our success. The one who chooses what he or she desires must stand by this desire and vitalize it into perfect success through their own thought force. If they leave it to become the caprice of other minds, or if they de-vitalize it by their concern about other businesses like their own, and put their thought into those things, thereby getting caught in the mesh of competition, they will fail in time. They will not fail because their own business was not a winning thing, but because they took the 18 life blood from it by their own foolish worry and resistance. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might," is the keynote of success in any walk of life and the lodestone that will wrench from the Universal the things that we require. A young physician, tired of the long hours of waiting for his practice, began to worry about the numerous calls and busy practices of his neighbor physicians, and after a while, to kill the monotony of the waiting he left his office and began to frequent a nearby club. An old friend, who had watched with concern the young doctor's career, finding his office empty day after day, printed this card, which he hung up in the doctor's office during one of the latter's visits to the club: "Keep your office and the office will keep you." Mind your business. This was the true call to success for that life, and he is now a successful surgeon with a large incorporated firm. One time a friend gave me the address of a hairdresser, and needing her attention I took an opportunity to call upon her. As I came to the number on the street I found a large show window full of splendid hair, hair ornaments and figures with the latest modes of hairdressing, and I thought, "What a big splendid establishment this must be." I went upstairs, took my place in the usual cabinet, and as the assistant was working on my hair, I heard a wonderful one-sided conversation over the telephone, between the owner of the establishment and one whom I judged to be the landlord, and I learned then and there that the window I had seen did not belong to the establishment. I found out in five minutes all about another f