The Dickenson County Herald

BLUE PRINTS

While one of the highest and most costly buildings was being erected in Chicago, a miniature of the completed building, made of plaster of Paris, rested upon a table in the office of the architect. In other words, the architect, having a definite plan according to which the structure was being built, had previously worked it into the plastic model. Without a definite blue print the building could never have been erected. Erecting a building without a plan is like trying to steer a ship without a rudder. Many a career has met with disaster because of the lack of a dominating purpose and directing motive. A house built in the sand is bound to fall down. A character without definite ideals is most likely to be shattered. A picture of the career we have planned should always be given a large place in the imagination. Blue prints are as essential to the building of one's life's career as they are to a building of stone or brick. One's career soon comes to naught in the absence of a definite plan. Many people make shipwreck of their careers because they allow themselves to be driven by any kind of caprice or opinion that happens to blow their way. Fix your eye on your goal. Work out a blue print for your future. Construct your idealized plan in the plastic of your imagination. See it already accomplished. The incentive to work will become many times greater and the dream will more likely become an actuality. We gradually become like what we constantly admire.
(©. 1928 Western Newspaper Union.)