SECOND WIND

The Deseret News - Jul 4, 1913

SECOND WIND

By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

The race of Success is won just like any other race--on Second Wind. Second Wind is nothing more than reserve power responding and carrying through to the end.

Be a Second Wind Performer.

Some people never experience Second Wind--simply because they never put forth the necessary effort to enable them to draw on their reserve lung space. But the reserve is there just the same.

Be a Second Wind Performer.

The successful man goes through all the little processes of failure and discouragement and defeat--then he gets his Second Wind--pushes all the setbacks aside, and carrying great momentum, he goes on and on. This is always the story of the one who has the courage and stamina to press on until the Second Wind is reached.

Be a Second Wind Performer.

If you want to experience the delight and power that results from the acquiring of your Second Wind you have but to do more than you are told to do--more than you have to do. Second Wind comes through Initiative, Enthusiasm, and Determination.

Be a Second Wind Performer.

MERIT

The Deseret News - Jul 2, 1913

MERIT

By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

Merit does find its true reward. In the final summing up, people pass for what they actually are. The gauge of Merit works straight and sound. Luck and Chance are the mere teasers of Fate.

Merit nothing beneath you.

Do more than is expected of you. Do each task better than people think you can. Believe all things are possible with you and you cannot fail to Merit big. It is better to aim for Perfection and miss it, than to aim at Imperfection and hit it.

Merit nothing beneath you.

Be not troubled over the accidents of Destinity. The rule of Merit will safely guide you into the wide way of Winning. True Merit is the rule and not the exception. Thousands of pages of History illustrate this truth.

Merit nothing beneath you.

Whatever you Merit and are worthy to receive, you will get. Concentrate your thoughts in elevating your Aims and Ideals, for these are they that lead you on and up.

MOVE ON

The Deseret News - Jun 28, 1913

MOVE ON

By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

One of the biggest, wisest and soundest lessons of history and life is to Sputter not, Loaf not, Wrangle not at all, but--Move on.

There is Health in Action. Move On.

To find whether a Task is worth your efforth, be first convinced that you will be Wiser, Happier and Stronger after it is done. If you are convinced of this, after careful weighing--set your Mind and Feet and Hands to the task, get it done, and then--Move On.

There is Growth in Action. Move On.

If you feel that you are not getting Joy to the full in what you do each day, Move On to something better. Have courage to Risk. Move On. Blessed is the man who finds his Work and Glories in it, for he cannot help but--Move On.

There is Happiness in Action. Move On.

Stand still and you Stagnate, grow Dull and lose the Snap and Ginger that men and women of Action always have. Move On. Study yourself, your Work, your Ambitions. Set your eyes Westward. Let not the Sun of Success go down upon the failures of your Inaction. Move On.

There is Success in Action. Move On.

Think. face new Ideas. Bury your dead Blunders and Mistakes. Search for new Viewpoints. Grasp new Ideals. Watch your Step. Move On.

FEAR

The Deseret News - Jun 26, 1913

FEAR

By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

Fear is about the biggest Bugahoo that Failure sends out, for its red flame of destruction gets to the heart of more men and women than any other agency of evil. It is a force of fire that sooner or later is sure to burn the noblest soul to dust, if not mastered.

Fear is never without. It is always within.

Fear is inside of Yourself--if it is anywhere. Your job is to smother it out. And here are a few suggestions. First, trust yourself. Then trust another people. And finally, trust God--for there is a God, somewhere, somehow. Where there is Trust, there can be no Fear.

No one can ever Win so long as he Fears his Success.

Lytton inspiringly wrote: "He either Fears his Fate too much, Or his Deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the test, To gain of lose it all." The conquering of Fear is the grand business of life.

At the moment that you feel no Fear, you begin to live!

The happy Warrior Fears no Foe. The efficient, courageous Worker Fears no task. He is unafraid of his Job. Oh, you who read this little talk, Fear NOTHING. The Purpose of a great World runs through you as it runs through all mankind. Smile and be Spurred by its Truth. This day is an important part of your whole. And you are and imoprtant part of this day.

Walk past Fear. it is easy. And you CAN.

OPPOSITION

The Gazette Times - Jun 21, 1913

OPPOSITION

By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

There is no force quite so effective as Opposition. When everything runs along smoothly and with no Opposition we lose the correctness of our vision, become careless and get off edge.

Win on your mettle.

Opposition keeps you constantly on the alert, arouses every ounce of fight in you and makes you think and plan you hardest and act beyond your normal powers.

Win on your mettle.

No one knows his own Possibilities of Efficiency and Achievement until the odds against him become desperate and he stands up and faces them and fights.

Win on your mettle.

You have within yourself certain abilities undreamed of by you that need but the stimulating force of Opposition to bring them out. Opposition, dodged, becomes a terrible monster; faced, it takes to its heels.

Win on your mettle.

MOMENTUM

The Deseret News - Jun 18, 1913

MOMENTUM

By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

Momentum is Accumulated Force in action. Accumulate Momentum and in its possession at some critical moment in your life you will rise to a glorious Foresight and Acumen.

You can never accumulate Momentum by standing still.

If you fail to take hold upon every possible chance that is offered you you fail in that measure to gather up and put aside accumulated Experience which goes to make up Momentum.

You can never accumulate Momentum by standing still.

Momentum is power saved up for Tomorrow. But if you waste the Opportunities of Today your Momentum is bound to slip away. For Momentum must be fed with continuous Action and Deeds in order that you may benefit from its force

You can never accumulate Momentum by standing still.

There is nothing more pitiful than to see men and women of brilliant Mind or Abilities reaching Middle Life inactive and with no Achievement carved about their names. The time to pile up Momentum is during the early years of life and duriring the early years of every day. But no matter in what position you find yourself you can begin at any moment to acquire Momentum and make it one of the most useful factors in your whole career.

SPURTS

The Gazette Times - Jun 17, 1913

SPURTS

By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

Too many people depend upon Spurts to carry them through. Too many people start with colors flying to wind up with their Hopes and their Enthusiasm trailing in the dust.

Start well--then, Keep It Up.

Eight-o'clock men, Monday morning men, January first men, who are out of the race at nine o'clock, on Tuesday morning and on February first, make up a large part of the men who enter Life's race.

Start well--then, Keep It Up.

Be not deceived by the attitude of the crowd. It is always eager to shout for the man who will give it a sensation by a Spurt at the start. It is equally eager to applaud the men who follow with Spurts. But the big, defeaning applause us for the steady, quiet, determined man who missed the eyes of the crowd at the start, but whose conserved energy enables him to cross the line at the end of the race a Winner.

Start well--then, Keep It Up.

Do your Spurting at the finish rather than at the start.