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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Success Through Thought Habit by Benjamin Johnson, published in 1908.

To build and maintain desirable qualities of mind, you must begin right now, this minute, to use every constructive faculty you have,

and to check carelessness in your speech, as well as in your thought,

for in fact you could not express yourself at all, unless the brain first gave the signal.

The person who lives in the, I can't afford it, residents, must change their

abiding place to the neighborhood of abundance, where they may secure the things they desire,

not because someone else will give it to them, but because they have

created it in their own mind, and such things will come to them naturally as a result of their

work. When every plan has been brushed aside, every expressed hope apparently crushed, and everyone has fell out of

sympathy with you, that is just the time to be stronger and firmer than ever, knowing that it is only

by feats of strength that the physical muscles are developed, and by tests and trials such as this, that the

quality of mine may be ascertained.

This is the time that the I will, and I am, must be repeated, not only once but many

times, and the thought of harmony made stronger than ever.

In short, it will mean the possession of a faith strong enough to keep one working on,

no matter what the immediate present may seem to be, filled with belief in the power so well described in the lines.

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