Show LOOK FORWARD do not tell your troubles trouble 1 s this year because the fewer people demple who know of the things that blat have handicapped you the letter better it is for you you will then be spared the influence of the unfortunate suggestions which your hard luck stories make upon other peoples minds then again every time you repeat tho the story of your misfortunes you etch the dark picture a a little deeper in your own mind make a little more relf rear to you what you ought to erase forever what cannot secured be cured should be erased forever what cannot help us what can only hinder should bo be forgotten discarded once for all many people hang on to their old troubles they cling to their old sorrows and misfortunes and their fall failures their past sufferings until they become a terrible drag a clog ful handicap to their progress the thing to do with a bad piece of work with an unfortunate mistake with a sad aad experience la Is to let it go wipe it out get rid of it forever never allow the hideous image to come into your presente presence again to mar your happiness or sap your strength it Is a good time to resolve that whatever has happened to you in the past which has haa caused you unhappy ness which has disgraced you has made you think less of yourself and made others think less of you you will drop it you will not drag it through the door of the now year that you will lock it out with the old year that you will clean house that you will only take with you the things which can brighten cheer and help you no matter what slips slip you have made no matter if you have made a fool of yourself this last year deax forget it blot it all out dut of your mind remember that every time you rehearse these there unfortunate experiences you only revive the ae sad memories and make them so much more real to you and so much harder to get rid of and to forget it Is wonderful what a strange e fascination cint ci tion ones mistakes f failures allures and unfortunate experiences have for most P people eople I 1 know people who seem to take a morbid delight dell glit in sitting for hours alq and thinking over the terrible things that have happened to them xe rehearsing their old troubles bles their misfortunes their mistakes A wound which is constantly probed never heals |