Choosing A Career, By Orison Swett Marden, published in 1905.

Choosing A Career (1905)

Book Facts... Choosing A Career

Author:	Orison Swett Marden
Publisher:	Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Year Published:	1905
Number of Pages:	332
Number of Chapters:	Forty-Two
Sub-Title:	None

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Selected Quote From: Choosing A Career

"One of the greatest tragedies of life is the fact that so many people stumble into their vocations by accident instead of by careful self-stock-taking and deliberate choice."
"The habit of hesitating, of figuring too long upon a proposition before venturing, begets a habit of indecision, makes a man lose confidence in himself, and tends to cripple his executive ability."
"Efficient leadership depends entirely upon a man or woman�s ability to multiply him or her self through others."
- Orison Swett Marden

Choosing A Career
Chapter Titles Include:

1. The Influence Of Environment Upon The Choice Of A Career
2. Things Which Influence A Career Besides Fitness
3. Stumbling Into An Occupation
4. An Unsettled Mental Habit As Related To The Life Calling
5. Health In Its Relation To Vocation
6. The Dissipation Of Energy In Its Relation To The Career
7. Belittling Occupations
8. The Relation Of Self-Improvement To One�s Career
9. A Career That Leads To Aspiration
10. Lives That Are Bound
11. Mere Money-Making Is Not Success
12. Make Growth, Not Wealth, Your Goal
13. The Message Written In The Blood
14. A Life-Work That Gives Play To One�s Individuality
15. A Career That Requires Courage
16. A Career That Calls Out Energy And Enthusiasm
17. A Life Employement That Calls For Hard Work And Overcoming Obstacles
18. A Career That Compels The Concentration Of Thought And Energy
19. The Test Of Leadership
20. Not Large Enough For Great Propositions
PLUS Twenty-Two additional chapters that will motivate and inspire the reader.

Excerpt From the Self-Help Classic... Choosing A Career

"THE YOUTH WHO STARTS OUT IN LIFE with wealth as his ideal is a foredoomed failure. If he would succeed, he should let growth, expansion of mind and heart, and wealth of character,not money-getting as the principal thing, be his aim.

Be as large a man as you can make yourself. Broaden your sympathies by taking an interest in other things than those which concern your immediate business. Do not allow yourself to become self-centered. Give some of your energies to securing better conditions for those less fortunate than yourself.

Protect and secure your reputation at all times. Never do anything that will throw discredit upon it, and success will mean far more to you than mere money-getting. You will find that culture, the development of your esthetic nature, will enrich you more than the accumulation of dollars.

If you wish to experience great success, you will have developed along the lines of your higher self; if you have kept growing through all the years of your life, no matter whether you have accumulated wealth or not, you are successful.

If, on the other hand, you have not kept growing; if you have starved your mind in order to fatten your pocketbook; if you have strangled your sympathies, your interest in the welfare of others, for the sake of increasing your business; if you have neglected your friendships, ignored the claims of those dependant upon you, or who have helped to make your business successful; of if you have been stingy, hard, and exacting, while you have been accumulating your money, you have failed even though you may have made millions of dollars.

It is astonishingly sad how few people live a complete life. There are many who develop a fraction of themselves and use but a fraction of their available power. The majority of the people get their living by the use of their weakest faculties, while their strong ones die from disuse.

Nature takes an inventory of us very often, and whatever she finds hidden away on a shelf, dust-covered from disuse, she quickly removes. �You may have it as long as you will use it,� she says, �but no longer.�"

- Orison Swett Marden

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