A DEFINITE CHIEF AIM 153What is your greatest worry? Why do you tolerate it?
When others offer you unsolicited advice, do you accept it without question or do
you analyze their motive for giving it?
What, above all else, do you desire? Do you intend to get it? Are you willing to
subordinate all other goals for this one? How much time do you devote to
it daily?
Do you change your mind often?
Do you usually finish what you start?
Are you easily impressed by other people's business titles, college degrees,
or wealth?
Are you often concerned about what other people might think or say of you?
Do you try to make friends with people because of their social status or wealth?
Whom do you believe to be the greatest person living? How is this person superior
to you?
How much time have you devoted to studying and answering these questions?At least one full day is needed to contemplate your answers, in
order to truthfully answer these questions.
A DEFINITE CHIEF AIM
The keynote of this entire lesson may be found in the word definite.
It is most appalling to know that 95 percent of the people of the
world are drifting aimlessly through life, without the slightest concept of
the work for which they are best fitted, and with no concept whatsoever
of even the need for such a thing as a definite objective toward which to
strive.
There is a psychological. as well as an economic, reason for the
selection of a Definite Chief Aim in life. Let us devote our attention
to the psychological side of the question first. It is a well-established
principle of psychology that a person's acts are always in harmony with
the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.