Your own mental attitude is your real boss. While your time and your labor may be subject to the demands of your employer and others, your mind is the one thing that cannot be controlled by anyone but you. The thoughts you think, your attitude toward your job, and what you are willing to give …
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The person who complains that he or she never had a chance probably hasn’t the courage to take a chance. Thomas Edison once observed that the reason most folks don’t recognize opportunity when it comes along is that it is often dressed in coveralls and look like work. Often opportunity involves a great deal of …
Your failure may prove to be an asset, provided you know why you failed. There are a few occasions during our brief time on earth when most of us experience great flashes of insight, great moments of truth that forever change the course of our lives. Most of those experiences result from spectacular failures, not …
In our society, we claim to strive for excellence, and claim to honor outstanding achievement. Too often, the reality is that we reward the average. From the time we are small children, we are taught to “fit in” and “don’t rock the boat.” All of the peer pressure we feel to wear the right clothes, …
POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of money. PLANS are inert and useless, without sufficient POWER to translate them into ACTION. This chapter will describe the method by which an individual may attain and apply POWER. POWER may be defined as “organized and intelligently directed KNOWLEDGE.” Power, as the term is here used, …
1. Don’t follow the herd. 2. Work hard then enjoy life. 3. Develop wonderful friendships. 4. Be honest. 5. Listen intently. 6. Shine a light on people’s gifts. 7. See rest as a productivity tool. 8. Treat everyone with respect. 9. Get better with age. 10. Give your customers stunning goods. 11. Spend a lot …
Success in life, be it personal or professional, comes from performing at a high level for an extended period of time. Hap Lowry is a friend and colleague on the professional speaking platform. He has a number of powerful statements he calls “Hapisms.” One of my favorites is “Persistence pays high dividends both professionally and …
PERSISTENCE is an essential factor in the procedure of transmuting DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the POWER OF WILL. Will-power and desire, when properly combined, makes an irresistible pair. Men who accumulate great fortunes are generally known as cold-blooded, and sometimes ruthless. Often they are misunderstood. What they have is …
Friction in machinery costs money. Friction in human relationships impoverishes both the spirit and the bank account. Discord in any relationship often has unpleasant financial implications, but it is far costlier in human terms. When you are involved in a fractious relationship, physical and mental energy that could be directed toward positive achievements is dissipated …
YOU have learned that everything man creates or acquires, begins in the form of DESIRE, that desire is taken on the first lap of its journey, from the abstract to the concrete, into the workshop of the IMAGINATION, where PLANS for its transition are created and organized. In Chapter two, you were instructed to take …