DOING ONE'S BEST

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 3 June 1909, Page 877

DOING ONE'S BEST

The habit of always doing one's best enters into th<* very marrow of one's heart and character. It affects one's bearing, one's self-possession. The man who does everything to a finish has a feeling of serenity; he is not easily thrown off his balance; he has nothing to fear, and he can look the world in the face, because he feels conscious that he has not put shoddy into everything; that he has had nothing to do with shams, and that he has always done his level best. The sense of efficiency, of being master of one's craft, of being equal to any emergency; the consciousness of possessing the ability to do with superiority whatever one undertakes, will give souls satisfaction which a halfhearted, slip-shod worker never knows. When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all his faculty say ' Amen \ to what he is doing, and give their unqualified appro.yal to his efforts — this is happiness, this is success. This buoyant sense of power spurs the faculties to their fullest development. It unfolds the mental, the moral, and the physical forces, and this very growth, the consciousness of an expanding mentality and of a broadening horizon, gives an added satisfaction beyond the power of words to describe.