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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.

An old proverb says that good courage breaks ill luck.

In other words, mental power, rightly directed, is the only force

that creates good luck. Hard work alone will not make you lucky. You must be ready to seize your

good luck when it comes, and you must search for it until you find it.

Ask yourself now, am I lucky? Am I trying to be lucky? Am I determined to be lucky?

You are the only person who can decide. If you want to be lucky, you must train your mind to obey your will,

and you must rule it with wisdom, courage, and foresight. In what manner are you exercising your

mind and keeping it fit? You must know that your mind will do a lot of work for you without any

effort on your part if you train it carefully. For instance, the mind works while we sleep. Not only is

this shown by our dreams, but there are countless instances where people have gone to bed

worried and perplexed over some problem, and on waking in the morning, have found the solution

in their minds.

Note the gradual growth of reasoning powers in the human being. The child first of all absorbs into its

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