Are You Doing What You Want to Do?

Are you doing with your life just what you want to do with it?  Are you doing the work you most love to do?  If you could be what you want to be, what kind of a man would you be?

If you aren’t doing what you want to do and if you aren’t the kind of a man you want to be, why aren’t you?  Put the reasons down on paper and see if they don’t look foolish to you.

In the majority of instances a man can do what he pleases with himself.  Things that get in your path are not obstacles unless you choose to regard them as obstacles.

One of the great truths is that there is always a way through, over, under, or around any obstacle.

You can get what you desire and in just the measure of that desire.

-       Thomas Dreier[1]

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[1] Thomas Dreier has been described as “a gentleman of the old school.”  Born in 1884, he was a writer, editor and philosopher.  He liked to travel and thought of himself as a bit of a vagabond.  This is borne out by some of the titles of the many books he authored: Sunny Meadows (1933); The Mountain Road (1935); The Religion of a Vagabond (1947).  Today he is most often remembered for quotations reflecting his positive, action-oriented viewpoint on life (as in the above example).  A philanthropist in later life, he was a promoter of the importance of books and libraries.  He was given an Honorary Doctorate in 1976 at Florida Presbyterian College.  The Thomas Dreier Grand Reading Room at Eckerd College reflects his generosity.  He died in September 1976 at the age of 92.  (Source: Eckerd.edu)