A good reflection on the subject.
Napoleon Hill's Thought for the Day:
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** You never know who your real friends are until adversity overtakes you and you need cooperation.
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Everybody loves a winner, it has been said, but nobody knows you when you’re down and out. One of the often unappreciated benefits of adversity is that it accelerates the process of identifying your true friends. Most of us have many acquaintances and associates, but we are fortunate to have a handful of real friends. You will very quickly identify yours when you ask them for help. The wise individual is the one who, when asked for assistance, recognizes that he may one day find himself in the same situation.
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“Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them.”
Napoleon Hill’s Thought for the Day
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** The man who does his job precisely as he would do it if he owned the business may see the day when he will own that business or a better one.
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** The best-managed companies are those in which management creates opportunities for employees to own a piece of the business through various types of stock-ownership programs. Management has found that when individual employees are also owners, they are more loyal, more creative, and more cost-conscious. They also work harder and are more responsive to customers. If you have the opportunity to participate in employee stock programs, do so. If possible, extend the same opportunity to your employees. If such programs are not available to you, conduct yourself as though you were already an owner, and sooner or later you will be. It is inevitable that when you think like an owner, you will eventually become one.
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** Those who do no more than they are paid for have no real basis for requesting more pay because they are already getting all they deserve to earn.
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** If you look around you, it will be apparent that there are two types of people in the world: There are those who say, “When this company decides to pay me what I’m worth, then I will do what they want me to do.” The second is the person who says, “I’m going to be the best I can be because that’s the kind of person I am. I also know that if I consistently give more than expected, I will eventually be rewarded for my efforts.” It is easy to see that the positive person contributes most to the organization. Yet, very few people are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve success. Make sure you’re a member of that group.
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** Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
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** Psychologists who study human behavior have concluded that we are happiest when we are striving to achieve success. It is the act of striving, not the successful completion of the task, that provides the greatest psychic rewards. When you strive to achieve success through service to others, you multiply the benefits to yourself, and you ensure that whatever road you choose in life will ultimately lead you to success and happiness.
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** There is no occupation or profession that will not benefit from a concerted effort to better serve others. But the greatest benefit will be to you, in the form of the self-satisfaction that comes from knowing that you made a difference, that without you others would never have received the service you provided.
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** The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.
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** Financial wealth is only one measure of success. The truly happy and successful individual is the man or woman who is healthy, financially secure, challenged in his or her career, and is making a difference in the lives of others. It isn’t always easy to render service to others. The world is a cynical and dangerous place where others are likely to mistrust your motives. They can be convinced only by consistent, sustained, outstanding service that is enthusiastically and cheerfully offered. In time, even the most cynical individual will come to accept your willingness to go the extra mile if you are sincere in your offers of assistance and in the service you provide.
** Those who do more than they are paid for will sooner or later be willingly paid for more than they do.
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** If you consistently do more than you are paid to do—whether you are a professional, an executive, an hourly worker, or an entrepreneur—you will eventually be compensated for far more than you do.
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** If you give more and better service than those around you, customers will eat a path to your door, and your boss will consider you irreplaceable. With the dearth of outstanding service that exists in the world today, you can instantly differentiate yourself from the competition simply by providing good service.
** From The Napoleon Hill® Foundation®
** Napoleon Hill’s Thought for the Day
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** Every time you influence another person to do a better job, you benefit that person and you increase your own value.
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** Someone once said that no one can really motivate anyone else; all we can do is motivate ourselves and hope it catches on. You will never know how much you influence others with your behavior. When you always go the extra mile, you will affect those in your circle of friends and acquaintances, your family, your co-workers, and even your bosses to do more and better than they have ever done.
** The end of the rainbow is reached only at the end of the second mile.
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** Christ’s admonition to the faithful in Matthew 5:41: “And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain,” responded to the Roman custom of allowing officers to force others to carry their load for a mile. The purpose of the biblical principle, similar to the idea of turning the other cheek, was to make good come from evil. You can add goodness to goodness by rendering beyond what you are asked to do. When you truly believe that the habit of going the extra mile is the only acceptable way to conduct yourself in all your dealings with others, when you are driven by a burning desire to serve your fellow man, you will be rewarded both financially and personally.
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** From The Napoleon Hill® Foundation®
** If life hands you a lemon, don’t complain, but instead make lemonade to swell to those who are thirsty from complaining.
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** Wally Amos, the man who many considered to be the father of the gourmet cookie industry, turned lemons into lemonade so often in his life that in his official portrait, he held a pitcher in one hand and a glass of lemonade in the other. A perennial optimist, Amos refused to acknowledge that obstacles are anything other than stepping stones to success. In a career that has spanned several decades, he made it to the pinnacle of success several times, only to lose everything and to be forced to start over. But he never lost faith. “You have to have the trust and faith to let go and not agonize,” he said. “Don’t waste your time worrying. Worry is not preparation. Analyze the situation and focus on solutions. There is always an answer.”
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** From The Napoleon Hill® Foundation®
August 29, 2024
Life's Uncertainties
“Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?” (John 14:5)
Many times along life’s way we face uncertainties, opposition, and even doubt. When we do, it is helpful to recognize that those who lived with Christ when He was here on Earth faced the same perplexities. His answers and assurances to them in John 14 are meant for us as well.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” He said (John 14:1)—an emphatic command that could be rendered “Don’t continue to be troubled.” The solution: “Ye believe in God, believe also in me.” We believe God can supply all the answers to our troubles. But Christ is God! He is the solution. He is “the way, the truth, and the life” (14:6) and is the only solution, for “no man cometh unto the Father, but by [Him].”
He is the way. “In my Father’s house are many mansions....I go to prepare a place for you. And...I will come again, and receive you unto myself” (14:2-3). Whatever else may befall us, our destiny is sure. His reputation is at stake, for He has promised a place in the Father’s house.
He is the truth. Peter had just been informed of his coming denial (13:38), that he would openly assert a lie. Jesus said He is “the truth.” “The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but of the Father that dwelleth in me” (14:10). Words and thoughts not in accordance with His are not “truth,” we can be sure of that.
He is the life. Speaking of His imminent death, Christ said, “Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards” (13:36), indicating their own eventual persecution and martyrdom. Yet their ultimate victory, as well as comfort (14:16-18), were assured.
How can those things be? “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name,” Christ said, “that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (14:13). JDM https://www.icr.org/article/14807/
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