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MU JIC TRADE
VOL. LVIL No. 6
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Aug. 9, 1913
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Achievement Should Be Inspiring.
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O be perfectly satisfied means to have enough, consequently there is a disposition to relax,
and usually when relaxation dominates there is a decided tendency to stagnate. I do not
mean that one should be discontented because of dissatisfaction, for that is a very un-
pleasant condition. It is the kind of a mental state which usually does not make for
advance, and with such a mental condition there can be no peace of mind or perfect poise. Envy
is the next step, and there is a tendency to expend a certain vital force in envying a person who
is able to accomplish more than ourselves. That means, followed out to its logical sequence, that
we have no strength left for useful operations.
Now, instead of permitting the achievements and triumphs of others to become a source of
discontent, we should make them serve as an inspiration urging us to the accomplishment of
greater things.
If we are envious the only way to do is to get rid of the feeling, and by so doing we can often-
times turn and make a success into a greater triumph.
Do not envy others, no matter how much more they are able to accomplish than you.
Emulate them—work as they have worked—strive as they have striven, and instead of wast-
ing your time and strength in envying others, you will have the joy, perhaps, of equaling, if not
of excelling them.
It makes no difference how humble a position we may occupy, there is always a chance that
we shall secure a much better one; but to do this we must so conduct ourselves in our present job
that we shall be entitled to a more desirable position when it comes, for a great many people make
themselves unhappy by permitting envy and jealousy to creep into their mental existence.
If they do not try to remove this influence it becomes firmly planted. It is something one
has to fight against from early youth, for as children we are liable to commence to envy our fellow
students who are at the head of the class, and the same ones who do this will be envying their
successful neighbors because they are able to make a greater show and live better than they are.
There is not the slightest excuse for envy in the world. If such thoughts brought us a step
nearer the goal towards which we are aiming there might be some excuse for giving way to them;
but, as it is, they actually hinder us, and in the end they bring nothing but misery, and the person
who devotes his time and thought in envying other persons is not usually and cannot be happy.
In the first place he can have no respect for himself, and then he can find no satisfaction in
existing conditions that compel him to occupy a place of so great inferiority.
It is a mighty good plan to make the most of our present situation, and to work manfully and
intelligently to better it in every legitimate way.
That is the kind of thought to cultivate, and it is the kind which
will help out materially to make life enjoyable.