Success

"Let me dispose of the dog for you," said the man of imagination. The owner was willing. The next morning the man of imagination took the dog out into the country and stopped at the first farmhouse at which the owner of the dog had called the day before. The same old man hobbled out on crutches and answered the knock at the door.

The man of imagination greeted him in this fashion:

"I see you are all crippled with rheumatism.

What you need is a fine dog to run errands for you.

I have a dog here that has been trained to bring home the cows, drive away wild animals, herd the sheep and perform other useful services.

You may have this dog for a hundred dollars."

"All right," said the crippled man, "I'll take him!"

That, too, was imagination!

No one wants a dog that someone else wants to "get rid of," but most anyone would like to own a dog that would herd sheep and bring home the cows and perform other useful services. The dog was the same one that the crippled buyer had refused the day before, but the man who sold the dog was not the man who had tried to "get rid of him."

If you use your imagination you will know that no one wants anything that someone else is trying to "get rid of." Remember that which was said about the Law of Attraction through the operation of which "like attracts like." If you look and act the part of a failure you will attract nothing but failures. Whatever your life-work may be, it calls for the use of imagination.

Niagara Falls was nothing but a great mass of roaring water until a man of imagination harnessed it and converted the wasted energy into electric current that now turns the wheels of industry. Before this man of imagination came along millions of people had seen and heard those roaring falls, but lacked the imagination to harness them.

The first Rotary Club of the world was born in the fertile imagination of Paul Harris, of Chicago, who saw in this child of his brain an effective means of cultivating prospective clients and the extension of his law practice.