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HURRY AND HABIT. O doubt you have many | problems, domestic, social, physical, and financial, which seem to you to be pressing for instant solu- tion. You have debts which must be paid, or other obligations which must be met; you are unhappily or inhar- moniously placed, and feel that some- thing must be done at once.

Do not get into a hurry and act from superfi- cial impulses. You can trust God for the solution of all your personal riddles. There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world. There is an invincible power in you, and the same power is in the things you want.

It is bringing them to you and bringing you to them. This is a thought that you must grasp, and hold 76 BEING GREAT. continuously—that the same intelli- gence which is in you is in the things you desire. They are impelled toward you as strongly and decidedly as your desire impels you toward them.

The tendency, therefore, of a steadily held thought must be to bring the things you desire to you and to group them around you. So long as you hold your thought and your faith right all must go well. Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude, and that wil not be wrong if you trust and are not afraid.

Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you act with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong. If things appear to be going wrong, do not get disturbed in mind; it is only in appear- ance.

Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude. Whenever you find 77 THE SCIENCE OF yourself getting excited, worried, or into the mental attitude of hurry, sit down and think it over; play a game of some kind, or take a vacation.

Go on a trip, and all will be right when you return. So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connection with the universal mind; you will get no power, no wisdom, and no information until you are calm.

And to fall into the attitude of hurry will check the action of the Principle of Power within you. Fear turns strength to weakness. Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

Whenever you fall into the mental state of hurry you may know that you have lost the right view- point; you are beginning to look upon 78 BEING GREAT. the world, or some part of it, as going wrong. At such times read Chapter Six of this book; consider the fact that this world is perfect, now, with all that it contains.

Nothing is going wrong; nothing can be wrong; be poised, be calm, be cheerful; have faith in God. Next, as to habit. It is probable that your greatest difficulty will be to overcome your old habitual ways of thought, and to form new habits.