| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White:
"But if you don't get a wiggle on you, you are sure goin' to get
left on those gold claims," says I.
"There ain't no gold claims," says he.
"But Henry Smith--" I cries.
"There ain't no Henry Smith," says he.
I let that soak in about six inches.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: write to the papers to sustain my private estimate. There can be
little doubt that men infinitely prefer the appearance of dash
and enterprise to simple honesty. No one believed I was not an
arch plotter in his financing. Yet they favoured me. I even
got permission from the trustee to occupy my chalet for a
fortnight while I cleared up the mass of papers, calculations,
notes of work, drawings and the like, that I left in disorder
when I started on that impulsive raid upon the Mordet quap heaps.
I was there alone. I got work for Cothope with the Ilchesters,
for whom I now build these destroyers. They wanted him at once,
and he was short of money, so I let him go and managed very
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: To-morrow's unborn griefs depose
The sorrows of our yesterday.
Dream yields to dream, strife follows
strife,
And Death unweaves the webs of Life.
For us the travail and the heat,
The broken secrets of our pride,
The strenuous lessons of defeat,
The flower deferred, the fruit denied;
But not the peace, supremely won,
Lord Buddha, of thy Lotus-throne.
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