A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

GET AHEAD AND STAY AHEAD l

Wuhn ft member olf the human pack steps out a. pace of two ahead of the rest of the pack, lie becomes a target for the envious. And so he will remain, just as long as he keeps ahead. Let him fall hack into the pack, and he will soon he forgiven and forgotten, for the envious are concerned only with tad successful—the fellows who are inarching ahead of the crowd. The leader, the doer, tho fellow ahead, gets both prizes and punishments.

But if he is made of the right stuff the punishments only cause him to increase his pace and get farther ahead of the pack.

Let any man or woman write a great hook, discover a great truth, paint a great picture, fight a great fight, lead a great movement, run a great enterprise successfully, and such a person will have earned the undying enmity of the envious.

Let him get ready Ifor the shrugs and slurs, the backbiters and the detractors, and the poisonous darts and arrow,s_which will pour upon him from the pack in the rear, For the envious always attack from behind. Somehow they seem to know their proper place and to keep it.

The leader is assailed because he has done something worth white, and the worth-while thing within him, 'which made it possible for him to do that worth-while tiling that put him ahead of the crowd, also renders him immune to the attacks of' the envious, for worth-while things have affinity only with worth-while things, nntl envy .is not one of them.

Jealousy wags its long yellow tongue, and mendacity uses its sting, continually from the moment when anybody rises above mediocrity.

Every leader in the world’s history has been assailed by the envious. Rut the works of the leaders and their fame endure, and will endure through all the ages, while every backbiter in tho world’s history lies 'forgotten in an unhonoured grave.

So got ahead of the crowd, and stay ahead. Increase your pace; never mind the backbiters. They cannot hurt you or pull you hack, unless you let them. —M. PRESTON STANLEY.