Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Orison Swett Marden
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is nothing like keeping fit, keeping things up to the standard; nothing like regu- larity in one’s life habits, order and system, both in life and in work. It will make all the difference in the world, in results, whether you go to your work every day in prime condition, with all your faculties up to their standards; whether you go at the top notch of your effi- ciency; whether you go an entire man, so that you can fling your whole life into your task, or only part of one. He who wins in this day of sharp competition must bring the whole of himself to his task; he must keep himself fit in every respect. Most people take only a small part of them- selves to their tasks. They cripple much of their ability by irregular living, bad habits, lack of sleep, and eating injurious food. They do not go to their tasks every morning whole men; a part of themselves, often a large part, is somewhere else. They have been trying to have a good time. They carry wealmess in- stead of power, indifference and dullness in- stead of enthusiasm and alertness, to the per- formance of the most important duties of their lives.
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