Making Life Worth While

Chapter 3: AUTHOR’S FOREWORD

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About This Book

A series of practical essays urging purposeful living through small daily habits, disciplined thinking, and energetic action. It argues that temperament can be shaped by training, that intellectual and physical cultivation fuel achievement, and that initiative, reason, and self-respect produce lasting progress. Topics range from education and overcoming laziness to leadership, civic duty, coping with adversity, and values money cannot buy, woven with personal reflections and anecdotes. Overall, the work promotes responsibility, deliberate effort, and continual self-improvement as the path to a more meaningful life.

AUTHOR’S FOREWORD

In Laugh and Live, my sole purpose was to emphasize our first duty toward ourselves, which consists of doing our level best at everything we undertake, and making the best of every situation that arises to confront us.

All through my early life I read inspirational books and liked them best of all. They seemed to beckon me on. I could feel myself being pulled along by an unseen hand.

Let there be no mistake about Making Life Worth While. It has no particular plan or sequence whereby to back up its title. Nearly everything has to do with such a subject and that is what the book contains—everything in general—and nothing in particular—just such things as came to mind that seemed worth while.

As a follow up to Laugh and Live here’s hoping that it will fill the bill.

D. F.