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 welldeveloped
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 men 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; 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 man 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 for 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 point 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 things else 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 All 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.
In Gratitude To YOU...
Goran B Edstrom, MarketHive-Entrepenaur.
https://markethive.com/goranbedstrom
