"The man who makes the acquisition of wealth the goal and ultimatum of his life, seeing it as an end rather than a means to an end, is not true. Why does the world usually make wealth the criterion of success, and riches the synonym of attainment? Real success in life means the individual’s conquest …
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Reserve Power
"The untold revelations of Nature are in her Reserve Power. Reserve Power is Nature’s method of meeting emergencies. Nature is wise and economic. Nature saves energy and effort, and gives only what is absolutely necessary for life and development under any given condition, and when new needs arise Nature always meets them by her Reserve …
The Library of Wisdom and Your Excalibur
"In the conquest of any weakness in our mental or moral make-up; in the attainment of any strength; in our highest and truest relation to ourselves and to the world, let us ever make “love” our watchword, not mere “duty.” If we desire to live a life of truth and honesty, to make our word …
Tying It Down
One of the biggest sources of wasted effort lies neither in poor preparation nor bungled execution, but in the failure to follow up. I have watched many good efforts turn to naught for lack of seeing the process all the way through, either deliberately or by accident. It is quite sad when it happens, especially …
Doing Your Best V
"The honest, faithful struggler should always realize that failure is but an episode in a true man's life,--never the whole story. It is never easy to meet, and no philosophy can make it so, but the steadfast courage to master conditions, instead of complaining of them, will help him on his way; it will ever …
Doing Your Best IV
Successful people know how to connect the dots between their present situation and their future goals. That said, successful people are not always happy people, which I imagine occurs whenever one's goals are not well-aligned with true purpose. The ability to connect the dots is something we learn from a very early age. We practice …
Failure as a Success V
You do not need failure to know success. Likewise, you do not need pain to know pleasure, hate to know love or or darkness to know light. That said, both are available in abundance in the world we live in today, so learning to navigate both with dignity, balance and vision is of the utmost …
Failure as a Success IV
Your book of life will rightly contain a number of interesting and diverse chapters. Some lives are filled with more dramatic episodes of change than others, but no matter how you look at it, change is an inevitable part of life. My own life has moved through a number of distinct phases: my childhood, adolescence, …
Failure as a Success III
The modern jets we fly on today are born of an accumulation of successes and failures over the decades. Aircraft designers constantly dream up new design elements in an effort to improve the safety, efficiency and handling characteristics of the aircraft we fly commercially, privately and in the military and some of them work while …
Failure as a Success I
Continuing our elaboration on William George Jordan's brilliant book, "The Majesty of Calmness," I would like to turn now to consider the nature of failure and success. To begin with, life is full of both, so you are wise to develop a strategy for the creative handling of either as a means of ensuring continual …
Gregory Hake 