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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

profession because he kept working, practising and trying for the perfection he knew could be won only by his own persistent efforts.

That is all success means.

Choose your vocation and go ahead. Nothing can hinder you but your own lack of purpose and application.

Do you possess the power of concentration?

Can you focus your mind upon any subject for any length of time?

If you believe you can, put the matter to the test. Sit down for five minutes (just five minutes before the clock strikes the hour) and try and think of only one thing.

Take the word Light, or the word Strength, and try to think of the meaning; or take the face of any one you love, and think of its features, excluding all other thoughts; or imagine the earth before any sign of life existed upon it, with only verdure, water and the seas, and think of that as a symbol of the word Serenity.

If you succeed in holding your mind resolutely to any one of these ideas for even one minute, without the intrusion of twenty other thoughts, you may believe yourself well prepared for any mental effort.

And you may know that you are the exception to the rule of intellectual humanity.

Not one mind in one hundred can do this simple thing.

Not one mind in one hundred in America. Mind scattering is almost universal here.

Our public schools, with all the good things they do for the masses, weaken the power of concentration in the majority of pupils.

The average normal child, born with good health

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