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Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from Success Through Thought Habit by Benjamin Johnson, published in 1908.

If ever the true merit of constructive thought is placed to attest, it is when things go

so wrong that there is apparently no way to turn and no solution to our difficulty.

Try as we may, we can find no reasonable excuse for what is happening once in a while we may

be placed in the trying position of not being able to blame anyone for our plight

and as we think things over we are forced to admit that were circumstances to be again arranged as they had been,

we would do the same things all over again.

Then perhaps we grow a little sorry for ourselves, and we say beneath our breaths,

what is the use of trying? I was just as good as I could have been for days, weeks, and months. And then this awful thing had to happen for no reason at all.

Next we may get angry, or possibly disgusted, and just in proportion to our own state

of mind, does the outlook continue to look worse and worse, until soon dull despair

settles down in great chunks of gloom. What is the remedy, you ask?

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