Show uncommon c 0 m m 0 n sen sense s e i lan io 3 aice 0 bell service the future not the past Is going to be your concern from now on instead of worry future ing about mistakes our care you have made big or little try to lo arrange that those mistakes will not be made again what Is done Is done profit by it it if it has been beneficial forget it if it has been harmful you are one of a great procession of human beings all hoping to be useful or successful all looking forward to possible happiness try after this to do nothing that you will be forced to undo by and by if you have the hurry habit and have suffered by it proceed with a more care next time it if you have neglected your eduan ebuen tion dont sit down and whine about it there Is still time to fit yourself for what you want to do self confidence Is an excellent thing but dont be too confident test your own capacity before you try it out 1 I know a great many young mm men who ho because their early training his been neglected and because they care I 1 more about passing enjoyment lhnn alinn what they might do with their futures have convinced themselves that they are fal failures lures and that it will be futile to try to succeed but if they have the will to tc 0 succeed they will succeed even it if they have wasted years that should have been devoted to effort T the he important thing Is to gain ground to equip yourself more and more thoroughly tor for the game every time you make a serious mistake resolve that that particular mistake shall not be committed again every time lime you feet ashamed about the time ou have wasted work double time tilt till the waste has been made up I 1 could cite dozens of cases of men who late in life have begun all over again and got away with it IL a mark twain tried piloting till the railroad displaced the mississippi river then he turned to gold mining he was unsuccessful at gold mining so he turned to writing and at writing lie he made a great success ad a d soon was earning more money in a year than lie he had made in many years spent finding himself it if you try to analyze your own mental makeup you will learn that there Is some one thing you can do and will enjoy doing more than anything else go ahead and do it dont worry about early mistakes think only of what you are going to do tomorrow and many hundreds of tomorrows no man can succeed in producing great things who Is not thoroughly sin cere in dealing with look to himself james yourself russell Il lowell one human being you can control it if you try hard enough one single career you can gulde guide that Is your own it if you have children you can influence them for a time cut but soon they will get out of leading strings dont fool yourself dont don considering somebody alses career say 1 I could do as well as he does or better it if I 1 tried maybe you could but youve got to find out you have a troublesome person on your hands bands you look yourself squarely in the face every morning if youve done mean things admit it dont make excuses belag being human you will be prone to criticize other people but you lime haie no right to you really know little about them restrain your judgment of them until you are sure what their motives are 0 6 As tor for you it if you are misunderstood and about half the people in the world imagine that they are it is your own fault you can be frank and honest if you want to that may not always be easy but it Is a thing that can be acquired by practice set a high mark for yourself 13 before you condemn others for actions which you think are mean and petty make sure that you are not doing actions of very much the same kind keep envy out of your system keep your sympathy working you I 1 doubtless expect it from others your happiness as you travel through I 1 life will depend upon your peace of mind I 1 you may get hardened after a while and begin to nurse the notion that it if other people cheat and lie you can get away with it too onibe you can but be ashamed of yourself and feel like a sneak I 1 know that there tire are many respected and venerated people in the world who gala gain wealth wake friends and are known as leading citizens but among these ire are many who are altare anare down doun inside of 0 themselves that they clater hut en 11 t played a straight game and 11 ho if i they ey had a chance would start all oter again second starts while they are possible tire are about a hundred aundre atas times as difficult as first starts so it is very touch much better to cliart chart the right course in the beginning and stick to it through throng li the voyage |