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** Napoleon Hill's Thought for the Day:
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** Act on your own initiative, be prepared to assume full responsibility for your acts.
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One of the primary differences between those who achieve great things in their lives and those who manage only to "get by" is that successful people learned early in life that they were responsible for their own actions. No other person can make you successful or keep you from achieving your goals.
Taking the initiative means assuming a leadership role, a position that singles you out for praise – and for criticism. The good leader is one who shares the credit for success with others and assumes full responsibility for failures or temporary setbacks. When you accept responsibility for your actions, you gain the respect of others and are well on the way to creating your own future.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Before trying to master others, be sure you are the master of yourself.
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When you develop a Positive Mental Attitude, you immediately set yourself apart from the crowd. You become a leader because positive thinking leads to positive action, while negative thinking leads to apathy and inaction. When you take the initiative in any situation, others will follow simply because they like associating with people who know where they are going. To lead, however, you must first be willing to discipline yourself. The first rule of leadership is never to ask others to do what you are unwilling to do yourself. You can lead only by example. Being a leader requires you to work harder and longer than others and prove you are the master of your destiny.
All things are possible if you believe.
Authority that is abused is soon lost.
March 14, 2024
The Essence of Sin
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Genesis 3:1)
The first entrance of sin into the world was Satan’s subtle suggestion to Eve that God’s word might not be true and authoritative after all. Then came Satan’s blatant “Ye shall not surely die” (v. 4), openly charging the Creator with falsehood. Ever since that time, the basic root of every sin has been unbelief—the implicit denial of the Creator’s Word.
Therefore, God’s judgment on human sin will be in relation to His Word. Jesus said: “There is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me” (John 5:45-46). He also said: “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day” (John 12:48). In principle, the Lord Jesus tells us that both the Old Testament (“the law of Moses”) and New Testament (“the law of Christ”) will be witnesses against us at God’s judgment throne.
In fact, at the final judgment, the “books” are specifically said to be the basis of God’s condemnation of the unsaved: “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened...and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works” (Revelation 20:12). These books surely include the books of the Bible, wherein are written the laws of God, against which men and women are to be judged. Since even one transgression makes one guilty (James 2:10), none could ever stand at the judgment by his own works. But since unbelief is the essence of sin, faith in God’s Word and in the person and work of the Savior revealed in God’s Word brings forgiveness, salvation, and righteousness. HMM
Your mental attitude determines what sort of friends you attract.
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Choose your friends carefully if you want to be a positive, successful person. Positive friends and role models will positively affect you, while negative friends will soon kill your initiative. Do not allow yourself to be lulled into complacency by the masses who believe mediocrity is an acceptable alternative. Focus on the possibilities for success, not the potential for failure. Discuss the situation with a cheerful, supportive friend when you doubt yourself. Everyone needs a boost now and again; make sure your friends are positive, success-oriented people who always build you up, not negative thinkers who seem to find a way to tear you down.
Happy group of friend having party on the beach.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dream.
Most automobile accidents are due to discourtesy and disregard of the other fellow’s rights.
If you have more enemies than friends, it's time to examine your mental attitude.
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When your enemies outnumber your friends, the answer to this problem most likely resides within you. Ask yourself, Am I the kind of person I would like to have as a friend? Do I consider the feelings of others, or do I think only of myself? Do I try to find the good in others, or am I always finding fault? When something goes wrong, do I search for a solution to the problem, or do I look for someone to blame? In the answers to such questions, you may find the answer to the question: Why do I have more enemies than friends?
I am wise because I learn from my mistakes.
Sometimes it is wiser to join forces with opponents than to fight with them.
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What a better world this would be if we worked together harmoniously toward achieving our shared goals instead of engaging in petty disputes and turf battles. When you allow yourself to be dragged into personality conflicts, game playing, arguments about who gets the credit, and disagreements about trivial issues, they drain your energy and sour your attitude. Plus, you waste valuable time that could be spent on far more critical matters.
When you try to understand others' motivations, you may discover that your opponents have far more in common with you than you think. When you cage your ego and look at the situation from the other person's point of view, you can almost always find a way to work together for your mutual advantage.
You will never know your limits until you push yourself to them.
Instead of complaining about what you don't like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves.
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It is easy to find fault with any job. Whatever your occupation or profession, there are always some unpleasant and mundane tasks you would rather omit. It is also easy to allow the things you dislike to dominate your thoughts and for you to overlook that the things you dislike about your work are a tiny percentage of the overall job. Make it a point to find something good in your job every day. It need not be a big, important event; simply finding joy in doing one thing exceptionally well will suffice. Then, instead of looking forward to the end of the day, you will see yourself looking forward to going to work.
Do it now. Sometimes later becomes never.
** You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is "rider" and who is "horse."
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There is no compromise or negotiation regarding who will run your life. Either you take charge and live a productive life or allow yourself to be ruled by circumstances. But there will inevitably be setbacks. In the old West, a cowboy expression said, "There never was a horse that couldn't be ridden, and there never was a rider that couldn't be thrown." Like everyone else, you will have days when everything goes right, and you are on top of the world. Relish those days, enjoy them, and remember them. Recall the euphoria accompanying them when you need an extra measure of positive thinking to get back in the saddle after you've experienced an embarrassing and painful fall.
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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
** It is always safe to talk about others as long as you speak of their good qualities.
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The adage "If you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all" is especially valid today. Regardless of the size, the rumor mill works overtime regarding negative gossip in any organization. And you can be sure that unkind things you say about others will quickly find their way to them, for it is also a truism that those who talk about others to us talk about us to others. Not only should you not speak badly of others—you should not participate in conversations others do. Spend time with those who focus on essential things, and you will never have to apologize for an unkind word uttered in a moment of weakness.
Gossip
Always think outside the box.
March 7, 2024
The Christian Rest
“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.” (Hebrews 4:9-10)
This is an important New Testament affirmation that God’s work of creation was “finished from the foundation of the world” (Hebrews 4:3). The reference is to Genesis 2:1-3, where the writer has told us that God had “rested from all his work which God created and made,” thus completely denying the contention of theistic evolutionists that the processes of “creation” (that is, evolution) are still going on.
In addition, it makes a significant comparison between the believer’s rest and God’s rest. The word “rest” here is not the usual word for “rest” and is used only this once in the New Testament. It means, literally, “sabbath rest” or “keeping of the Sabbath.” In the context of chapters 2 and 3 of Hebrews, the concept of rest is being expounded with several meanings. The original warning was in Psalm 95:11, where it referred both to the Israelites entering into the promised land under Joshua and to God’s own rest after His work of creation. Psalm 95 is repeatedly quoted in Hebrews, where other meanings are also implied: the keeping of a weekly Sabbath in commemoration of God’s rest after creation; the promised future rest to the world and its believing inhabitants—possibly in the millennium but certainly in the new earth; and the believer’s present spiritual rest after he puts his faith in Christ, no longer trusting in his works for salvation.
With such a rich investiture of meaning in the fact of God’s past rest and the promise of our future rest, it is appropriate that there should be a perpetual weekly commemoration and expression of faith in that rest in every generation until its ultimate fulfillment in the eternal rest in the New Jerusalem.
In the meantime, we are urged to “labour” to “enter into that rest” (Hebrews 4:11). HMM
It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.
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Of all the negative emotions, envy is the most insidious. It is especially sinister because it destroys you from the inside by replacing all that is positive and productive with negative feelings of anger, jealousy, and despair. But when you congratulate others on their successes and genuinely wish them well, not only do you give credit to those who deserve it, but you also feel better about yourself. Once you've overcome your envy, you should determine the other person's actions to achieve success. Meanwhile, you will have strengthened your relationships by recognizing the achievements of others.
You can have results or excuses, not both.
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