Occupation and focusing your thoughts on your blessings, these are the methods to employ. As long as you dwell upon your imagined or your real sorrows you will be miserable and the worries will magnify like gathering clouds in April. Take the stand of changing your thoughts to confidence, faith, and good cheer, and busy your hands with work. Think of the happiness periods you have had and know there is happiness dividends coming to you. Keep this sort of thought and with it useful occupation, and the sunshine will dispel the clouds in your thoughts like the sun dispels the April showers and brings about a more beautiful day because of the clouds and storms just passed. When trouble or sorrows come, sweeten your cup with sugar remembrances of joys you've had and joys you are to have. Envy no one; envy breeds worry. The person you would envy has his sorrows and shadows, too; you see him only when the sunlight is on the face, you don't see him when he is in shadowland. No, dear ones, I nor you, nor anyone on earth can have complete, unruffled, continued happiness, but we can brace up and call our reserve will power, reason, and self-confidence to bear when we come to the marshy places along the road. We can pick our steps and get through the mire and sooner than we believe it possible we can get on the good solid ground; and as we travel, happiness will often come as a reward for our poise and patience. My friends say, "you always seem happy," and in that saying they tell a truth, for I am happy often, very, very often and between times I make myself seem to be happy. This making myself "seem to be happy" gives me serenity, contentment, fortitude, and the very "seeming" soon blossoms into a reality of the condition I seem to be in. You can be happy often and when you are not happy, just seem to be happy anyway; it will help you much. SELF ACCUSATION If You Do This You Will Always Be Miserable Many have the habit of keeping their minds on their weaknesses or their shortcomings. If they read of some one doing a great thing or making a worth-while accomplishment they say, "I never could do such a thing." These persons are always saying, "I never have luck. I can't do this. I can't do that." Always knocking, always thinking can't instead of can, will make fear, irresoluteness, uncertainty and weakness of character. Saying "I can't, I haven't the ability, I am unlucky" and such like makes you weak and knocks out all chance for doing things. Nothing comes out of the brain that wasn't burned in by thought. If you accuse yourself, belittle your capacity, or drown your good impulses with doubt and self-accusation, you are putting away a lot of bad thought in your brain and no wonder you will lack in initiative, ambition and courage. To those who claim to be unlucky I want to say you are not unlucky, you simply lack pluck.