Work Hardest on Yourself
Facts and faith and action - what a combination for personal
progress. And action puts fear to flight. An Old Testament phrase
says: “watch the ants you sluggard, consider their ways and be
wise.” Not a bad suggestion, the study of ants. What do they do in
the summer to prepare for the winter? That’s a lesson in life and
survival. Happiness, wealth, peace, security, success, safety,
friendship, reward, results, and all human achievement comes from
a growing ability to understand and handle the changing seasons.
And so we come right back to the theme of our entire
enterprise. Self-development. Learn to work harder on yourself
than anything else. The key to all success in economics or mental
health, is self-development. It will all change for the better when
you change for the better. It’s what you become that really counts.
And you are the only variable. So a good statement is: You can’t be
all positive. You can’t be all confident. You can’t be all faith. But
confidence and faith and courage and inspiration can dominate over
worry and fear.
Physical and emotional forces are always at work. And
something will win and conquer. Make sure you give yourself the
best chance to get mental and emotional domination over all of your
challenges.
And here is one of the master keys to the good life. Developing
the intelligence and accepting the challenge of putting all of your
emotional experience into their rightful ratio. Beginning this
progress can bring about the most dramatic changes. You see,
disappointment is like winter, it always comes. It is foolish to say,
don’t be disappointed. But you must learn to discipline your
disappointment. If it dominates fifty-one percent of your time,
you’re in trouble. Continued heavy disappointment is like twelve
months of winter. And twelve months of winter leaves very little
alive. Use the guidelines of seasons to adjust to all the meaningful
things that happen to you.
So concern, fear, and disappointment like many human
emotions serve a useful purpose as long as they are kept in their
rightful ratio. Left unattended the weeds take over.
Disappointment rules. Worry breaks lose. Fear gets the upper