Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1910 — Do Not Seek Trouble. [ARTICLE]

Do Not Seek Trouble.

One reason why so many fail, or plod along in mediocrity, says Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine, Is because they see so many obstacles and difficulties. These loom up so threateningly that they lose heart to win. They see so many difficulties that they are in a discouraged condition much of the time, and this mental attitude Is fatal to achievement, for it makes the mind negative, noncreative. It is confidence and hope that callout the faculties and multiply their creative, producing power. The habit of dwelling on difficulties and magnifying them weakens the character and paralyzes the Initiative in such a way as to hinder one from ever daring to undertake great things. The man who sees the obstacles more clearly than anything else is not the man to attempt or do any great thing. The man who does things is thg man who sees the end and defies the obstacles. Napoleon did not see the Alps, which seemed Impassable to his generals; that Is, his confidence that he could take his army over these mountains Into Italy was so great that the dlffl-. culties which seemed overwhelming to, others had no power to discourage him. - I have never known a person who magnifies difficulties, who talks a great deal about obstacles, to do great things. It Is the man who persists In seeing his Ideal, who ignores the obstacles, absolutely refuses to see failure, who clings to- his confidence In victory, success, that wins out in whatever he undertakes.