SUCCESS, in any particular business,
depends for one thing upon your possessing in a well-developed state the
faculties required in that business.
Without good musical faculty no one can
succeed as a teacher of music; without well-developed mechanical faculties no
one can achieve great success in any of the mechanical trades; without tact and
the commercial faculties no one can succeed in mercantile pursuits. But to
possess in a well-developed state the faculties required in your particular
vocation does not insure getting rich. There are musicians who have remarkable
talent, and who yet remain poor; there are blacksmiths, carpenters, and so on
who have excellent mechanical ability, but who do not get rich; and there are
merchants with good faculties for dealing with men who nevertheless fail.
The different faculties are tools; it is
essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be
used in the Right Way. One man can take a sharp saw, a square, a good plane,
and so on, and build a handsome article of furniture; another man can take the
same tools and set to work to duplicate the article, but his production will be
a botch. He does not know how to use good tools in a successful way.
The various faculties of your mind are
the tools with which you must do the work which is to make you rich; it will be
easier for you to succeed if you get into a business for which you are well
equipped with mental tools.
Generally speaking, you will do best in
that business which will use your strongest faculties; the one for which you
are naturally "best fitted." But there are limitations to this
statement, also. No man should regard his vocation as being irrevocably fixed
by the tendencies with which he was born.
You can get rich in ANY business, for if
you have not the right talent for you can develop that talent; it merely means
that you will have to make your tools as you go along, instead of confining
yourself to the use of those with which you were born. It will be EASIER for
you to succeed in a vocation for which you already have the talents in a
well-developed state; but you CAN succeed in any vocation, for you can develop
any rudimentary talent, and there is no talent of which you have not at least
the rudiment.
You will get rich most easily in point
of effort, if you do that for which you are best fitted; but you will get rich
most satisfactorily if you do that which you WANT to do.
Doing what you want to do is life; and
there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing
something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And
it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof
that you have within you the power which can do it.
Desire is a manifestation of power.
The desire to play music is the power
which can play music seeking expression and development; the desire to invent
mechanical devices is the mechanical talent seeking expression and development.
Where there is no power, either
developed or undeveloped, to do a thing, there is never any desire to do that thing;
and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that the
power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the
Right Way.
All things else being equal, it is best
to select the business for which you have the best developed talent; but if you
have a strong desire to engage in any particular line of work, you should
select that work as the ultimate end at which you aim.
You can do what you want to do, and it
is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be
most congenial and pleasant.
You are not obliged to do what you do
not like to do, and should not do it except as a means to bring you to the
doing of the thing you want to do.
If there are past mistakes whose
consequences have placed you in an undesirable business or environment, you may
be obliged for some time to do what you do not like to do; but you can make the
doing of it pleasant by knowing that it is making it possible for you to come
to the doing of what you want to do.
If you feel that you are not in the
right vocation, do not act too hastily in trying to get into another one. The
best way, generally, to change business or environment is by growth.
Do not be afraid to make a sudden and
radical change if the opportunity is presented, and you feel after careful
consideration that it is the right opportunity; but never take sudden or
radical action when you are in doubt as to the wisdom of doing so.
There is never any hurry on the creative
plane; and there is no lack of opportunity.
When you get out of the competitive mind
you will understand that you never need to act hastily. No one else is going to
beat you to the thing you want to do; there is enough for all. If one space is
taken, another and a better one will be opened for you a little farther on;
there is plenty of time. When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the
contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose; and by all
means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.
A day or two spent in contemplating the
vision of what you want, and in earnest thanksgiving that you are getting it,
will bring your mind into such close relationship with the Supreme that you
will make no mistake when you do act.
There is a mind which knows all there is
to know; and you can come into close unity with this mind by faith and the
purpose to advance in life, if you have deep gratitude.
Mistakes come from acting hastily, or
from acting in fear or doubt, or in forgetfulness of the Right Motive, which is
more life to all, and less to none.
As you go on in the Certain Way,
opportunities will come to you in increasing number; and you will need to be
very steady in your faith and purpose, and to keep in close touch with the All
Mind by reverent gratitude.
Do all that you can do in a perfect
manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you
can, but never hurry.
Remember that in the moment you begin to
hurry you cease to be a creator and become a competitor; you drop back upon the
old plane again.
Whenever you find yourself hurrying,
call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and
begin to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will
never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.
Let’s see ‘The Impressionof Increase’ in the next post.
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