I'd like to talk to you today about
Something that is very important to you.
I wish to talk about your future.
Surely, nobody can be interested in his future.
We had in this country until a few years ago a very unique man by the
Name of Charles Catering I think you could safely say that next to
Thomas Edison,
Catering was the greatest inventive
Genius who ever lived in the United States.
I heard him remarked once after a speaker spent a long time talking
About the past that he wasn't interested in
The past because that was over it was past.
And when anything he could do about it.
He said that he was interested in the future because
That is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
There may be uncertainty about some things but there is no
Uncertainty about this,
You and I are going to spend the rest of our lives in the future so
Any sensible person I believe wants to
Have a future that is worth living in.
Your future isn't going to be determined by
Circumstances over which you have no control.
How you think of things determine what and how things will become.
What you think about it is what you'll make it.
Because it's a fact that your thoughts will
Condition and motivate your actions, they always do.
As I talk now,
I know I am talking to a lot of people
Who are having a very hard time of it.
This is one of the greatest facts of life.
Terribly hard time people had with things.
One trouble after another comes upon people when they least expect it.
Life is very tough.
But when you face a mess of
Difficulties, let's understand it this way.
There's no gain saying it,
But if you take the outlook and the attitude that something great can
Be made of this,
No matter how bad it is, you will make something great.
But if you take the attitude that you are in an unhappy situation,
That everything is against you then you are
Going to make your situation worst instead of better.
It's all how you think,
One of the truest things that can be said of a problem is this.
Let's face it.
Your outlook can and does determine you're own future.