MorningThoughts

What do you think about
the very first thing in the morning?

Your thoughts during the first half-hour
of the morning will greatly influence the entire day.

You may not realize this, but it is nevertheless a fact.
If you set out with
worry
and depression,
of soul toward fate or man,
you are giving the key note
to a day of discord
and misfortunes.

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If you think
peace,
 hope,
and happiness,
you are sounding a note of
harmony and success.

The result may not be felt at once,
but it will not fail to make itself evident eventually.

Control your morning thoughts.

You can do it!

The first moment on waking,
no matter what your mood, say to yourself,
"I will get all the comfort and pleasure possible
out of this day, and I will do something
to add to the measure of the world's
happiness or well-being.

I will control myself when tempted to be
irritable or unhappy,
I will look for the bright side of every event."

Once you say these things over to yourself
in a calm, earnest way,
you will begin to feel more cheerful.
The worries and troubles of the coming day
will seem less colossal.

Then say,

"I shall be given help to meet
anything that comes today.
Everything will be for the best.
I shall succeed in whatever I undertake.
I cannot fail."

Do not let it discourage you if the moment you
leave your room you encounter a trouble or a disaster.
This usually happens.

When we make any boasts
spiritually or physically,
we are put to the test.
The occult forces about us are not
unlike human beings.

When a schoolboy boasts of his strength,
and says he can
"lick any boy in school,"
he generally gets a chance to prove it.

When we declare we are brave enough
to overcome any fate,
we find our strength put to the test at once.

But that is all right.
Prove your words to be true
Regard the troubles and cares you encounter
as the "punching bags" of fate,
given you to develop your spiritual muscle.

Go at them with courage and keep
to your morning resolve.
By and by the troubles will lessen,
and you will find yourself
master of circumstances.

 Ella Wilcox Wheeler
The Heart of New Thought

1902

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