PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESS

to climb the ladder of success. Progress can seldom be made by leaps and bounds. The climb is up the ladder one step after another, you cannot make a success of your life by the lift expecting it to do everything for you. There are no buttons which you can just push and then automatically reach your goals. You can only make progress step by step. Accept the Law of Nature There is a price to be paid for every end in life; without paying that price, nothing can be achieved. In this world one has to sink before one can rise; one has to resign oneself to loss before one can gain; to backwardness before one can advance; one has to be able to accept defeat before one can claim victory. The world in which man lives has been created by God, not by man himself. This may appear to be a simple fact, but it is one that man usually forgets in his everyday life. Since we are living in God’s world, we have no alternative but to understand His laws, and follow them. There is no other way we can make a place for ourselves in the world. Those who wish to advance and be successful in life without passing through the necessary stages, will have to build another world for themselves—one which satisfies their own requirements; for in the world that God has created, their dreams can never come true. Thus anyone who wants success to come their way in this world will first have to make themselves deserving of it. They must know their strengths and weaknesses and circumstances. They must organize and channelize their energies properly. They must enter the field fully equipped in every respect, then others cannot fail to recognize their true value. They must be like the tree which forces its way up through the undergrowth to take its place in the sun. o Imaginary Problems If the problem concerns the future, it is a nonexistent problem, simply based on fear. Why bother about something which has not yet happened? Maybe it never will.