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Today I Begin a New Life

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Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long,

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suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity.

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Today I am born anew and my birthplace

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 is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

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Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest

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 and fullest vines in the vineyard,

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for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me,

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generation upon generation.

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Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily

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 I will swallow the seed of success buried in each

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and new life will sprout within me.

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The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity

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 yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those

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who have failed, were they piled one atop another,

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would cast a shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth.

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Yet I will not fail, as the others,

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 for in my hands I now hold the charts

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which will guide through perilous waters to shores

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which only yesterday seemed but a dream.

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As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits,

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as are all grown men. I will form good habits and become their slave.

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And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls,

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it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle

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which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one

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which will bring me closer to success.

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And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth.

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 I will lose not a day from these readings

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for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it.

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 I must not, I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and,

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 in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit

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are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.

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Today my old skin has become as dust.

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 I will walk tall among men and they will know me not,

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for today I am a new man, with a new life.