ster than we
do.

The time will come when every human being will have unbounded faith and
will live the life triumphant. Then there will be no poverty in the
world, no failures, and the discords of life will all vanish.

CHAPTER XLIV

THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK YOU ARE A FAILURE

If you made a botch of last year, if you feel that it was a failure,
that you floundered and blundered and did a lot of foolish things; if
you were gullible, made imprudent investments, wasted your time and
money, don't drag these ghosts along with you to handicap you and
destroy your happiness all through the future.

Haven't you wasted enough energy worrying over what can not be helped?
Don't let these things sap any more of your vitality, waste any more of
your time or destroy any more of your happiness.

There is only one thing to do with bitter experiences, blunders and
unfortunate mistakes, or with memories that worry us and which kill our
efficiency, and that is to _forget them, bury them_!

To-day is a good time to "leave the low-vaulted past," to drop the
yesterdays, to forget bitter memories.

Resolve that you will close the door on everything in the past that
pains and can not help you. Free yourself from everything which
handicaps you, keeps you back and makes you unhappy. Throw away all
useless baggage, drop everything that is a drag, that hinders your
progress.

Enter upon to-morrow with a clean slate and a free mind. Don't be
mortgaged to the past, and never look back.

There is no use in castigating yourself for not having done better.

Form a habit of expelling from your mind thoughts or suggestions which
call up unpleasant subjects or bitter memories, and which have a bad
influence upon you.

Every one ought to make it a life-rule to wipe out from his memory
everything that has been unpleasant, unfortunate. We ought to forget
everything that has kept us back, has made us suffer, has been
disagreeable, and never allow the hideous pictures of distressing
conditions to enter our minds again. There is only one thing to do
with a disagreeable, harmful experience, and that is--_forget it_!

There are many times in the life of a person who does things that are
worth while when he gets terribly discouraged and thinks it easier to
go back than to push on. But _there is no victory in retreating_. We
should never leave any bridges unburned behind us, any way open for
retreat to tempt our weakness, indecision o