Start each and every day with an intention to succeed. Resolve that you will call upon all of your resourcefulness, your inventiveness, and your ingenuity. Devise new and better ways of doing things. Be progressive and up-to-date so that you will enter into your work with a spirit of enthusiasm and a zest, which knows no bounds. You will be surprised to see how quickly you will attract positive results.

This striving for excellence will make you grow personally. It will call out your resources, and activate the very best within you. The constant stretching of the mind over problems which interest you, will help you expand into a broader, larger, more effective person.

If you work with this spirit, you will form a like habit of accuracy, of close observation; a habit of reading human nature; a habit of adjusting means to ends; a habit of thoroughness, of system; a habit of putting your best into everything you do. This means the ultimate attainment of your maximum efficiency. In other words, if you give your best the best possible comes back to you in skill, training, shrewdness, acumen, and power.

The quality, which you put into your work, will determine the successes of your life. The habit of insisting upon the best of which you are capable, and always demanding excellence in your endeavors is essential. Never accepting the lowest or second best, no matter how small your remuneration, will make all the difference to you between mediocrity or failure, and success. If you bring to your work the spirit of an artist instead of an artisan, a burning zeal, an absorbing enthusiasm, these will take the drudgery out of it and make it a delight.

There is no law by which you can achieve success in anything without expecting it, demanding it, assuming it. There must be a strong, firm self-faith first, or success will never come. There is no room for chance in God's world of system and supreme order. Everything must have not only a cause, but also a sufficient cause, one as large as the result. A stream cannot rise higher than its source. A great success must have a great source in expectation, in self-confidence, and in persistent endeavor to attain it. No matter how great the ability, how large the genius, or how splendid the education; the achievement will never rise higher than the confidence. He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.