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Show Two Barriers to Our Success 'Someday' and 'I Can't'; How to Rid Ourselves Our-selves of Them. There are three words which are great barriers to success. One Is Someday, and the other two are, I can't. Persons who use these words fall to do what they would like to because they put a hindrance In the way. The people who say I can't don't even try. They limit their will power, and frustrate their wishes No one can succeed who doesn't even try to. It is the ones who start and steadily pursue their way who eventually arrive at the desired de-sired destination. Those who lie down on the Job and excuse themselves them-selves with the Idea they cannot do the thing, who audibly, or mentally say to themselves, "1 can't." are failures. It is a serious matter just to think "I can't" do whatever there is to be done, or what one longs to get e-complished. e-complished. It Is promoting failure. If a mother sees that a child Is Inclined In-clined to say "I can't," she should encourage him to try to do the thing. She can show him It can be done by doing the thing before his eyes, and helping him to do It after her. She can spur him to action by offering him a trifling prize for succeeding. Or If the youngster Is really too little to do whatever the thing is, she can stimulate his mind to realize his growing power and ability to succeed suc-ceed when he Is older. In these ways she can nip In the bud the Insidious In-sidious Idea that he cannot even try. She encourages the Idea that whatever Is worth doing, Is worth trying to do. While the attitude of failure as expressed In "I can't" has Its beginning begin-ning In childhood. In Immaturity, the attitude of postponement featured fea-tured In Someday Is one of maturity. One looks down a long vista Into the dim future and finds no view of the Indefinite Someday. It is s day "conceived or thought of but not definitely known." We can only see It as a mirage, an optical Illusion. It Is true we cannot expect fruition frui-tion In the budding season, but we can know that fruition does not come without bud and blossom. Our thought Is like a bud. work Is like the blossom and. success comes as the fruit of our thought and work. There Is nothing Indefinite about this. And there Is pleasure all along the way, whenever we -see progress. We do not have to wait for the miraculous Someday. Now Is what we have In time, In power, and the opportunity for enjoyment We always al-ways have Now. It is never In the past nor the future. We can learn to say I can, now and act accordingly. accord-ingly. Boll Syndicate. WNTJ Servlo. |