Book excerpt: Mina Parker, tireless mom and author of 365 Excuse Me …(inspired by the late Lynn Grabhorn), introduces the new Hampton Roads Collection of motivational classics. These affordable digital shorts will help the harried and the hurried to breathe deep, reassess, and re-purpose their day in the time it takes to drink a large latte. The first four of twelve lessons of early New Thought author Henry Thomas Hamblin's classic system to build character and gain success. Full of straightforward advice, inspiring aphorisms, and relentless positivity, Hamblin guides us to alter our mental attitude, direct our thoughts into those channels which lead to success, achievement, health, happiness and perfect good, and discover and develop our innate creative power.