WHERE LUCK HAS BEEN FOUND - By Orison Swett Marden

In thrift and foresight.

In thorough preparation for one's life work.

In mental alertness. In always being ready to lend a helping hand wherever and whenever needed.

In being tactful and a good mixer.

In holding the efficiency ideal of oneself and one's capabilities.

In downright, constant hard work.

In being ready for the opportunity when it came.

In courtesy, kindness, and consideration toward everybody.

In helping oneself instead of looking to others for boosts, capital, or favors of any sort.

In doing one's work a little better than others did theirs.

In not being satisfied with anything but one's best, never accepting one's second best or a botched job.

In always carrying some reading matter in one's pocket, so that spare time could be utilized while waiting for trains, or for those who were tardy in appointments, by reading for self-improvement.

In being cheerful, no matter how dark the outlook.

In trying to make good in every possible way, while never taking advantage of others.

In beginning the thing which something within one said one could and ought to do, no matter what obstacles stood in the way; by obeying one's good impulses promptly, before they quit prodding one.

In never allowing oneself to believe that he was born to be poor, a failure, a mediocre sort of a man or woman.

In carrying the victorious attitude in everything,' looking like a winner, talking like a winner, and radiating the confidence of a winner.

In holding that the good things of the world were not made for a favored few, but for all God's children.

In substituting clear grit and persistency for the advantages which many others enjoyed from birth.

In believing that the best part of one's salary was not in one's pay envelope but in the chance to make good in every bit of work that passed through one's hands.

In the opportunity to absorb the secrets of one's employer's business; to learn for pay what he bought dearly, perhaps, after failure and an enormous expenditure of money and time, and, possibly, the shortening of his life in the process.

In keeping eyes and ears open, and mouth closed most of the time.

In indomitable perseverance, a determination which will never give up or retreat; in everlastingly pushing ahead whether one could see the goal or not.

In the right attitude towards life, towards one's work, towards everything and everybody.

In choosing one's company, associating only with people who were doing their best to get on and get up in the world.

In the consciousness of one's partnership with the All-Good, the All-Supply, with the Infinite Mind.

In learning, through mental chemistry, to neutralize the things which kill one's best efforts — fear, worry, anxiety, jealousy, envy, malice, touchiness, anger, and thus to keep one's mind free for the larger things.