Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1904 — Look Back and See What You Lost [ARTICLE]

Look Back and See What You Lost

Just look hack over the day and see where your energy has gone. See how much of it has leased away from you in trifles. Perhaps you have wasted it in fits of fretting, fuming, grumbling, fault-finding, or in the little frictions that have accomplished nothing, but merely rasped your nerves, made you irritable, crippled you, and left you exhausted. You may have drained off more nerve and brain force in a burst of passion HSari'yau- have expended in doing yourlreal work. Perhaps you did not reanzethat, in going through your place of business like a mad hull through a china shop, you pulled out every spigot and turned -on every faucet of your mental and physical reservoir, and left them open until all the energy you had stored up during the night had run off. Look hack and see whether your scolding, fault-finding, criticising, nagging, and what you call '“reading the riot act” to your employes, has helped you in any way or accomplished anytbipg. No; you only losrt your energy and self-control, your self-respect, and the respect and admiration of your employes.—Orison Swett Marden in “Success.”