Organizing Your Life
By : Stephen Campbell | ID: 49818 | Views : 190686 | Words: 535 | Rating : Not Rated All over the land young men at this moment are beginning business or professional careers. They have done with school and college and now they are about to start making their own way in the world. To store and office, factory and mill, mine and lumber-camp, to one or another scene of productive endeavor they turn their steps. An eager throng are they, alert with the urgings of youth, youth's ardent longing for success.
But youth too often forgets that success depends on many things. And too often youth forgets that it depends largely on the definite-ness of a young man's aim and the vigor with which he organizes his life with that aim in view. No young man can drift to success. No young man can possibly succeed if he lets the power that is in him lie latent, or if he scatters it in foolish activities. Every young man who would win must energize himself by concentration.
Reynolds Brown once drew a little word-picture specially significant to young men starting out for themselves. Here it is: "A pile of steel filings and shavings lying on the floor of a foundry may be fine in quality, they may weigh a ton when put upon the scales, but unorganized they have little value. Organize and weld them into a shaft, attach one end of the shaft to an engine and the other to a screw propeller and it will send a mighty ocean liner from New York to Liverpool in five days."
He goes on: "In like manner a mind, a heart, a soul, is nothing more than a confused heap of thoughts and wishes, impulses and desires, longings and aspirations, until by the power of a purpose all these are brought into unity and made effective in their thrust toward some worthy fulfillment." That is what every young man needs to do - he needs to organize his life.
And he can not too soon begin the task of organizing it. For if he delay, habits which may make life-organizing difficult, if not impossible, are pretty sure to fasten on him. The habit of energy waste, the habit of contentment with the mediocre, the habit of indolence, the habit of amusement craving, once gripped by these he is well-nigh doomed. As, since the first peopling of the world, millions of men have demonstrated by the futility of their lives.
Always the winners are those who clearly recognize that life is for accomplishment of a worthwhile sort, and, inspired by the recognition, subordinate everything else to accomplishment. They may not win fame, they may not win wealth. But they are certain to win and hold self-respect, the esteem of others, self-satisfaction, happiness.
And incidentally, they may into the bargain win both fame and wealth. Though, to be sure, he is foolish indeed who sets the winning of either fame or wealth as his great object in life. There are other life purposes infinitely more important. Besides, to fix the aspiration solely on fame or wealth is to invite disaster. It may even mean mental wreckage, as in the case of one unfortunate young man of my acquaintance.
But youth too often forgets that success depends on many things. And too often youth forgets that it depends largely on the definite-ness of a young man's aim and the vigor with which he organizes his life with that aim in view. No young man can drift to success. No young man can possibly succeed if he lets the power that is in him lie latent, or if he scatters it in foolish activities. Every young man who would win must energize himself by concentration.
Reynolds Brown once drew a little word-picture specially significant to young men starting out for themselves. Here it is: "A pile of steel filings and shavings lying on the floor of a foundry may be fine in quality, they may weigh a ton when put upon the scales, but unorganized they have little value. Organize and weld them into a shaft, attach one end of the shaft to an engine and the other to a screw propeller and it will send a mighty ocean liner from New York to Liverpool in five days."
He goes on: "In like manner a mind, a heart, a soul, is nothing more than a confused heap of thoughts and wishes, impulses and desires, longings and aspirations, until by the power of a purpose all these are brought into unity and made effective in their thrust toward some worthy fulfillment." That is what every young man needs to do - he needs to organize his life.
And he can not too soon begin the task of organizing it. For if he delay, habits which may make life-organizing difficult, if not impossible, are pretty sure to fasten on him. The habit of energy waste, the habit of contentment with the mediocre, the habit of indolence, the habit of amusement craving, once gripped by these he is well-nigh doomed. As, since the first peopling of the world, millions of men have demonstrated by the futility of their lives.
Always the winners are those who clearly recognize that life is for accomplishment of a worthwhile sort, and, inspired by the recognition, subordinate everything else to accomplishment. They may not win fame, they may not win wealth. But they are certain to win and hold self-respect, the esteem of others, self-satisfaction, happiness.
And incidentally, they may into the bargain win both fame and wealth. Though, to be sure, he is foolish indeed who sets the winning of either fame or wealth as his great object in life. There are other life purposes infinitely more important. Besides, to fix the aspiration solely on fame or wealth is to invite disaster. It may even mean mental wreckage, as in the case of one unfortunate young man of my acquaintance.
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