Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — The Habit of Cheerfulness. [ARTICLE]

The Habit of Cheerfulness.

Cheerfulness will attract more customers, sell more goods, do more business with less wear and tear than almost any other quality, says Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine. Optimism is the greatest business-get-ter, biggest trader, the greatest achiever in the world. Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up. In the business office, as in society, everywhere, the favorite is always the cheerful person. Good-natured, cheerful people do not waste their vital energy as rapidly as the grumbler, or the too sober, too sad people. They work with much less friction. Good cheer Is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery. Shakespeare says: “A merry heart goes all the day, «Your sad tires in a mile —a.” There is no other life habit which can give such a prolific return in happiness and satisfaction as that of being cheerful under all circumstances. If the resolution to cultivate cheerfulness is strongly made at the very outset, it will not be difficult to form the cheerful habit, and it will be the best protection against suffering and disappointment. Cheerfulness Is also a great producer. It adds wonderfully to one’s active ability, and increases mental and physical power. It makes hosts of friends, apd helps us to be interesting and agreeable.