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This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death.
Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed?
If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.
I will live this day as if it is my last. And if it is my last, it will be my greatest monument.
Each minute of today will be more fruitful than hours of yesterday. My last must be my best.
Thirteen
The Scroll Marked VI
Today I will be master of my emotions.
All nature is a circle of moods and I am a part of nature and so, like the tides, my moods will rise; my moods will fall.
And how will I master these emotions so that each day will be productive? For unless my mood is right the day will be a failure. Trees and plants depend on the weather to flourish but I make my own weather, yea I transport it with me. If I bring rain and gloom and darkness and pessimism to my customers then they will react with rain and gloom and darkness and pessimism and they will purchase naught. If I bring joy and enthusiasm and brightness and laughter to my customers they will react with joy and enthusiasm and brightness and laughter and my weather will produce a harvest of sales and a
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I will learn this secret of the ages: Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts. Each day, when I awaken, I will follow this plan of battle before I am captured by the forces of sadness, self-pity and failure— If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will remember
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If I become overconfident I will recall my failures. If I overindulge I will think of past hungers. If I feel complacency I will remember my competition. If I enjoy moments of greatness I will remember moments of shame. If I feel all-powerful I will try to stop the wind. If I attain great wealth I will remember one unfed mouth. If I become overly proud I will remember a moment of weakness. If I feel my skill is unmatched I will look at the stars. Today I will be master of my emotions.
And with this new knowledge I will also understand and recognize the moods of him on whom I call. I will make allowances for his anger and irritation of today for he knows not the secret of controlling his mind. I can withstand his arrows and insults for now I know that tomorrow he will change and be a joy to approach. No longer will I judge a man on one meeting; no longer will I fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate today. This day he will not buy gold chariots for a penny, yet tomorrow he would exchange his home for a tree. My knowledge of this secret will be my key to
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I will recognize and identify the mystery of moods in all mankind, and in me.
Fourteen
The Scroll Marked VII
I will laugh at the world.
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Four words I will train myself to say until they become a habit so strong that immediately they will appear in my mind whenever good humor threatens to depart from me.
This too shall pass.
When I am heavy with heartache I shall console myself that this too shall pass; when I am puffed with success I shall warn myself that this too shall pass. When I am strangled in poverty I shall tell myself that this too shall pass;
Never will I labor to be happy; rather will I remain too busy to be sad.
And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.
Only with laughter and happiness can I enjoy the fruits of my labor.
Fifteen
The Scroll Marked VIII
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
If it is possible for leaves and clay and wood and hair to have their value multiplied a hundred, yea a thousandfold by man, cannot I do the same with the clay which bears my name? Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
In setting my goals I will consider my best performance of the past and multiply it a hundredfold. This will be the standard by which I will live in the future.
To surpass the deeds of others is unimportant; to surpass my own deeds is all.
Sixteen
The Scroll Marked IX
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action. I will act now.
Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which carried its owner ...
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Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success.
I will act now.
I will act now.
Let me act now even though my actions may not bring happiness or success for it is better to act and fail than not to act and flounder.
When I awake I will say them and leap from my cot while the failure sleeps yet another hour.
When I enter the market place I will say them and immediately confront my first prospect while the failure ponders yet his possibility of rebuff.
Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.
For now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy.
Lest I act I will perish in a life of failure, misery, and sleepless nights.
Seventeen
The Scroll Marked X
Move your hand in haste before another’s eyes and his eyelids will blink.
All creatures that walk the earth, including man, possess the instinct to cry for help.
I will pray, but my cries for help will only be cries for guidance.
may acquire ability equal to my opportunities.
Spare me sufficient days to reach my goals; yet help me to live this day as though it be my last.
