HOW TO FAIL IN EVERYTHING - BY EMMET FOX

   *Knock everything systematically. No matter what you hear of, deprecate it and predict the worst. 
   *Mind everyone else's business. This will insure your neglecting your own. 

   *Never perform today what you can possibly postpone until tomorrow. 
   *Leave the important things to someone else instead of seeing to them personally. 
   *Have no organized arrangements. Trust to luck for everything. 
   *Be a sanctimonious humbug, and when you bungle things say it is "the Lord's will" or that the trouble is that you are too good for your surroundings. 
   *Finally, conduct your life in all respects as if there were no God. 
   "Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish." (Psalm 39:8)
--Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox, March 8 reading