Getting Into The Right Business

Suc­cess, in any par­tic­u­lar busi­ness, depends for one thing upon your pos­sess­ing, in a well-​​developed state, the fac­ul­ties required in that business.

With­out good musi­cal fac­ulty no one can suc­ceed as a teacher of music. With­out well-​​developed mechan­i­cal fac­ul­ties no one can achieve great suc­cess in any of the mechan­i­cal trades. With­out tact and the com­mer­cial fac­ul­ties no one can suc­ceed in mer­can­tile pur­suits. But to pos­sess in a well-​​developed state the fac­ul­ties required in your par­tic­u­lar voca­tion does not insure get­ting rich. There are musi­cians who have remark­able tal­ent, and who yet remain poor. There are black­smiths, car­pen­ters, and so on who have excel­lent mechan­i­cal abil­ity, but who do not get rich. And there are mer­chants with good fac­ul­ties for deal­ing with peo­ple who nev­er­the­less fail.

The dif­fer­ent fac­ul­ties are tools. It is essen­tial to have good tools, but it is also essen­tial that the tools should be used in the right way. One man can take a sharp saw, a square, a good plane, and so on, and build a hand­some arti­cle of fur­ni­ture. Another man can take the same tools and set to work to dupli­cate the arti­cle, but his pro­duc­tion will be a botch. He does not know how to use good tools in a suc­cess­ful way.

The var­i­ous fac­ul­ties of your mind are the tools with which you must do the work which is to make you rich. So it will be eas­ier for you to suc­ceed if you get into a busi­ness for which you are well equipped with men­tal tools.

Gen­er­ally speak­ing, you will do best in that busi­ness which will use your strongest fac­ul­ties — the one for which you are nat­u­rally “best fit­ted.” But there are lim­i­ta­tions to this state­ment also. No one should regard his voca­tion as being irrev­o­ca­bly fixed by the ten­den­cies with which he was born.

You can get rich in ANY busi­ness, for if you have not the right tal­ent, you can develop that tal­ent. It merely means that you will have to make your tools as you go along, instead of con­fin­ing your­self to the use of those with which you were born. It will be EASIER for you to suc­ceed in a voca­tion for which you already have the tal­ents in a well-​​developed state;, but you CAN suc­ceed in any voca­tion, for you can develop any rudi­men­tary tal­ent, and there is no tal­ent of which you have not at least the rudiment.

You will get rich most eas­ily in terms of effort, if you do that for which you are best fit­ted, but you will get rich most sat­is­fac­to­rily if you do that which you WANT to do.

Doing what you want to do is life, and there is no real sat­is­fac­tion in liv­ing if we are com­pelled to be for­ever doing some­thing which we do not like to do and can never do what we want to do. And it is cer­tain that you can do what you want to do. The desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it.

Desire is a man­i­fes­ta­tion of power.

The desire to play music is the power which can play music seek­ing expres­sion and devel­op­ment. The desire to invent mechan­i­cal devices is the mechan­i­cal tal­ent seek­ing expres­sion and development.

Where there is no power, either devel­oped or unde­vel­oped, to do a thing, there is never any desire to do that thing, and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is cer­tain proof that the power to do it is strong and only requires to be devel­oped and applied in the right way.

All other things being equal, it is best to select the busi­ness for which you have the best devel­oped tal­ent, but if you have a strong desire to engage in any par­tic­u­lar line of work, you should select that work as the ulti­mate end at which you aim.

You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and priv­i­lege to fol­low the busi­ness or avo­ca­tion which will be most con­ge­nial and pleas­ant. You are not obliged to do what you do not like to do, and should not do it except as a means to bring you to the doing of the thing you want to do.

If there are past mis­takes whose con­se­quences have placed you in an unde­sir­able busi­ness or envi­ron­ment, you may be obliged for some time to do what you do not like to do, but you can make the doing of it pleas­ant by know­ing that it is mak­ing it pos­si­ble for you to come to the doing of what you want to do.

If you feel that you are not in the right voca­tion, do not act too hastily in try­ing to get into another one. The best way, gen­er­ally, to change busi­ness or envi­ron­ment is by growth.

Do not be afraid to make a sud­den and rad­i­cal change if the oppor­tu­nity is pre­sented and you feel after care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion that it is the right oppor­tu­nity, but never take sud­den or rad­i­cal action when you are in doubt as to the wis­dom of doing so.

There is never any hurry on the cre­ative plane, and there is no lack of opportunity.

When you get out of the com­pet­i­tive mind you will under­stand that you never need to act hastily. No one else is going to beat you to the thing you want to do; there is enough for all. If one space is taken, another and a bet­ter one will be opened for you a lit­tle far­ther on; there is plenty of time. When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the con­tem­pla­tion of your vision, and increase your faith and pur­pose. And by all means, in times of doubt and inde­ci­sion, cul­ti­vate gratitude.

A day or two spent in con­tem­plat­ing the vision of what you want and in earnest thanks­giv­ing that you are get­ting it will bring your mind into such close rela­tion­ship with the supreme that you will make no mis­take when you do act.

There is a mind which knows all there is to know, and you can come into close unity with this mind by faith and the pur­pose to advance in life, if you have deep gratitude.

Mis­takes come from act­ing hastily or from act­ing in fear or doubt or in for­get­ful­ness of the right motive, which is more life to all, and less to none.

As you go on in the cer­tain way, oppor­tu­ni­ties will come to you in increas­ing num­ber, and you will need to be very steady in your faith and pur­pose, and to keep in close touch with the supreme mind by rev­er­ent gratitude.

Do all that you can do in a per­fect man­ner every day, but do it with­out haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

Remem­ber that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease to be a cre­ator and become a com­peti­tor. You drop back upon the old plane again.

When­ever you find your­self hur­ry­ing, call a halt. Fix your atten­tion on the men­tal image of the thing you want and begin to give thanks that you are get­ting it. The exer­cise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

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