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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

For What Are You Living?

Do YOU ever stop and ask yourself for what you are living?

Is it for "success" in some undertaking?

Then what are you doing to produce success?

No matter how hard you may be working, unless you are finding pleasure and pride in your work, and doing it with cheerfulness, you are not going forward to real success.

One month of such application of your powers will achieve more for you than a year of grumbling, dogged work, done with unwillingness and dislike of the task. Whatever you are doing, reason yourself into a love of your labor, until you can leave it for something more agreeable.

One excellent way to reason along these lines is to see that every day given to an unpleasant task is bringing it nearer its completion, when you can abandon it.

And even if it seems to you that such an end can never be attained, that the work you have in hand is endless, yet remember that thought is the greatest miracle worker; and that thought is energy, and that by continual determination, coupled with continual aspiration and effort, you can bring any change you desire into your life.

But no good results can be achieved by angry, purposeless rebellion or sullen discontent, or work done with hatred and disgust, however well done.

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