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Getting Into The Right Business
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 people 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. So 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 one
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, 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 terms 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 other things 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 supreme 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. |
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