Don't make the mistake of choosing something too big for a boy or a girl to carry through. Perhaps the following will be suggestive:

1. A newspaper stand.

2. A miniature truck farm in the empty lot next door.

3. A pop corn wagon.

4. A fruit cart or stand.

5. A shoe shining stand.

6. Raising ferns or flowers for sale.

7. Buying vegetables from a farmer and selling them to housewives.

8. Printing business cards and blotters on a small press.

9. Making place cards.

10. Making valentines.

11. Painting holiday postal cards or fancy cards for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and the like.

12. Printing on postal cards pretty scenes that you have photographed perhaps in your town or at a summer resort.

13. Making and selling cakes, doughnuts, and the like.

14. Selling crocheted or embroidered articles.

=Exercise 145--Elements of Success=

Prepare a short speech on each of the following. Wherever possible make your statements clear and forceful by using ill.u.s.trations or examples.

1. Cheerfulness helps to bring success.

2. The habit of neatness is an a.s.set.

3. The habit of punctuality is a necessity.

4. He was not promoted because he watched the clock.

5. He was not promoted because his excuse was always, "I forgot."

6. He was not promoted because he learned nothing from his mistakes.

7. He was not promoted because he was always grumbling.

8. He was not promoted because he was content to be a second-rate man.

9. He was not promoted because he ruined his ability by half-doing things.

10. He was not promoted because he did not learn to act on his own judgment.

11. One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

12. Experience is an expensive teacher.

13. Be not simply good--be good for something.

14. Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

15. To be successful one must have confidence in himself.

=Exercise 146=

As in the preceding exercise prepare a speech on each of the following:

1. A dishonest person cannot succeed.

2. There is no excuse for discouragement.

3. You may secure a position through another's influence, but you keep it through your own merit.

4. There is always room at the top.

5. There is no such thing as luck.

6. The proper att.i.tude toward an employer is one of deference.

7. A business woman should dress simply.

8. Perseverance is the key to success.

9. To accomplish much one must work systematically.

10. It is possible to cultivate a good memory.

11. The ability to converse is a business a.s.set.

12. The habit of exaggeration is dangerous.

=Exercise 147--Successful Men and Women=

How can one measure the success of men or women? Is it by the money they make? the land they acquire? the fame they win? the good they do? By what means have they won success? Was it through favorable circ.u.mstances? strength of character? favoritism? physical strength?

mental energy? daring? doing what they thought was right in spite of opposition? or simply doing nothing and waiting for success to come?