Enthusiasm

enerate within themselves the divine energy of enthusiasm is one with the death of their own desires. It takes a stout heart to always keep enthused in the face of prolonged disappointment and continued opposition, but it must be done if we aim to conquer. There are hours in all business endeavors, in all friendships, all associations, all loves when we must pass along aided alone by our souls' white light and as Kipling says, "When there's nothing in us to hold on but the power (enthusiasm) which says 'hold on.'" To meet hard places on the path is a part of the great plan, and "we belong to those who go down to the sea in ships and who do business in great waters." And only the one who can bid their own life glow with an enthusiastic radiance will keep light enough to steer past the rocks in their channel. Not everyone is equally alive in all ways, under all circumstances, and it is well that we are not or there would be no longer an opportunity to evolve on this planet, but it is possible for everyone to have a flaming sword of enthusiasm within them, equal to their own development, and no matter how little it may be, it is still there, and like attracts like, for even a grain of mustard seed will move mountains. The man who lets his enthusiasm awake him in the morning instead of an alarm clock will never fail in business; the money magnet who lets his enthusiasm carry him into an interest of his very lowest employee, to see that labor is comfortable, will never hunt for laborers, nor meet strikes nor revolutions. The friend who meets his friend with interest, joy and aliveness, will count his friends by the score. And the lover who gives being for being in perfect part, smile for a smile, truth for truth, heart for a faithful heart, will never die alone. With the fire of a great enthusiasm within us we keep our own lamps trimmed and burning, and we become then a torch bearer and a lamp to the feet of the slumbering multitude. We are success then because we have set the law of our own life and believing in the law we come into the protection of the law. 45 FOURTEENTH SUCCESS METHOD CONCENTRATION CENTURIES ago it was written, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." And that subtle law of doing everything we do with our might is the very heart of the law of success. Upon concentration more than upon any other thing hangs our hope for ultimate self-perfection. Concentration is the first step toward conscious direction and contr