Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading has been edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand and Other Essays by Herbert Edward

Edward Law, published in 1916.

To push one's business forward, to develop one's purpose, conceived in the mind and resolutely

determined on, means a steadfast application to it, bringing to bear upon it every mental force

that one possesses. To have resolutely in mind a purpose is to have made the first and

greatest step toward it. The difference between those who achieve mediocre success

and those who rise high above it is in this mental resolution, this development of a purpose, this pushing forward

of a business.

It is not necessary to the creation of a great business that you understand and realize at the beginning

the complicated problems that you will have to meet and master. But it is essential that you

recognize the necessity of doing each thing as it arises to be done, and doing that thing well,

doing it the best within your power. Whether you are a master of mechanics or of media, you became

so by learning one thing at a time. The person who now controls great interests may have seen

the time when they had only the slightest knowledge of the interests they now so easily direct.

Remember that the exercise of a faculty increases its power.

Thus as you exercise the faculty is called out and required in building your business, their

power to meet conditions grows. Having resolved on your business,

now proceed to push it and push it with every hour that you devote to business. Do it thoughtfully,

put into it every mental force that you have at your control.

The constant association, the high resolve with the efforts that sustain and back it up,

give you added strength for the problems and duties of tomorrow.

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