So my mother in law recommended this book to me called As You Think. It was written in the early 1900's by a man who quit going to school at the age of 15 to help his family. It's a psychology and spiritual book. It's been a bestselling self help book for many, many years. I'm facinated that it's so powerful. If it were written today, this guy would have never been published without any sort of credibility from his education. Fortunately for us, that was a different time and place and the book has survived.
I don't really want to share all of it with you, it's an easy read that you can bang out on the weekend, but I particularly loved the last chapter. It's short enough that I can share with you most of it. Not sure what the copyright laws are on that, but he's been dead for a long time and fortunately his lawyer is probably dead too. Besides, I want you buy this book.

I loved the last chapter because I could really relate to it. I like being around calm people that make you feel good about yourself. I am often given a hard time because I'm not easily exciteable. This chapter made me feel better about myself and what I would like to strive for. I don't want to come off as arrogant as most of what I read was good motivation for who I would like to be. So, here is most of the last chapter of As You Think:

The more tranquil we become, the greater is our success, our influence, our power for good.

Calmness of mind is one of the beatuful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.
We become calm in the measure that we understand ourselves as thought-evolved beings, for such knowledge necissitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as we develop a right understanding, and see more and more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, we cease to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remain poised, steadfast and serene.
People who are calm, having learned how to govern themselves, know how to adapt themselves to others; and these others, in turn, revere the calm people's spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn from them and rely upon them.
The more tranquil we become, the greater is our success, our influence, our power for good. Even the most ordinary salespeople, for example, will find their business prosperity increase s they develop a greater self-control and equanimity, for people will always prefer to deal with people whose manner is pleasand and steady.
Strong, calm people are always loved and revered. They are like shade-giving trees in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm.

Who does not love a tranquil heart, a sweet-tempered, balanced life? It does not matter whether it rains or shines, or what changes come to those possessing these blessings, for they are always sweet, serene, and calm. That exquisite poise of character that we call serenity is the last lesson of our culture; it is the flowering of life, the fruitage of the soul. It is precious as wisdom, and more to be disired than gold – yes, than even fine gold. How insignificant mere money seeking looks in comparison with a serene life – a life that dwells in the ocean of truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of the tempests, in the eternal calm!
How many people do we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood! It is a question whether the great majority of people do not ruin their lives and mar their happiness by lack of understanding and self-control. How few pople we meet in life who are well-balanced, who have that exquisite poise that is characteristic of the finished character!
Yes, humanity surges with uncontrolled anger, is tumultuious with ungoverned grief, is blowin about by anxiety and doubt. Only the truly wise, whose thoughts are controlled and purified, make the winds and the storms of the soul obey them.
Self-control is strength; right thought is mastery; calmness is power.
Say to your heart, "Peace, be still!"