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March 26 - March 30, 2019
another valuable attribute: your subconscious. It can be either a help or a hindrance, depending on how well you know how to turn it into an ally.
One of the great obstacles to success is when you harbor deep internal doubt about whether you deserve such success.
you have to feel that you deserve good things, or else your subconscious might very well sabotage all your best efforts.
humans are not consumers at all. We humans are creators.
Humans are not takers by nature. Humans do far better as givers.
Don’t try to find a rational reason for giving away money.
Give money away because it is one of the most powerful and effective ways of increasing your own income.
Keep in mind that giving away money is like investing. In the case of charity, you give away money with the idea that it may one day come back to you in plentiful returns, but perhaps it may not. There are no guarantees.
So many people work hard while harboring the unworthy suspicion that there is no purpose or meaning in their labors. Their lives are diminished, and the effectiveness of their efforts is reduced by lurking skepticism regarding the value of what they do.
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
happy will be the day when I can finally turn my back on this contemptible activity called work, sings the fool. He claims to be working in order to live, rather than living in order to be able to work. He works five days a week in order to be able to live for the two days of the weekend, or he endures the terrible work day only to live for the nighttime hours.
The choice of what to do should never be made on the basis of what you enjoy doing. That violates the central premise of business, which is that success comes to the unselfish.
focus on what others need from you and that you can provide.
How do you make yourself enjoy something? The answer is straightforward. Become accomplished and competent at it.
keep in mind that everything you do must benefit others as much as yourself.
With the passage of time, you ought to know an increasing number of friends and acquaintances. You ought to be a lot less self-centered, which means that you are better equipped to nurture and maintain those friendships.
A person’s real economic value is spiritual, not physical.
work was to be man’s source of satisfaction. In this, he would fulfill his destiny as a partner of his Creator in the act of creation. Through work, he would prove that he was indeed created in God’s image because he was to be earth’s only creature capable of the same creativity as God Himself.
You work not because you need the results of that work but because there is intrinsic meaning and value in the work itself. That meaning emerges from the fact that your work benefits others.
Business success depends on working in order to benefit others: your customers or clients, your employees, and your community. That should be your primary motivation.
By bestowing the gift of money on His children, God gave them the advantage of being able to be supplied with the things that they want rather than with the things that others think they should have. Pay and profit tell you that you are supplying a need and filling other people’s wants. They are not the motivation for your work, they are the validation of your work.
Stop thinking of retirement as a goal, with a specific date in mind.
Work is valuable beyond its money generating benefits: It keeps you vital, involved in life, and part of a community of others—all of which are necessary for survival and longevity.
Recognize that many people lead very productive lives long into their advanced years.
Understand that retirement is essentially selfish. Working productively means that you are caring for others. It is hard to maintain meaningful relationships with others when you are retired because you are concerned chiefly with yourself—and
Keep in mind that retirement erodes perseverance, which is one of the most important factors to success.
Don’t believe the three lies inherent in the retirement myth. First, reject the idea that work is only a means to an end; instead, recognize that work is valuable: You should live to work, and you should enjoy the work you do. Second, don’t buy into the idea that as you age, you become weaker and less capable of making money; the opposite is actually true: You know more about your craft or area of expertise, you know more people who can help you or benefit from your work, and you are more mature in dealing with adversity. Third, ignore the misperception that people are merely voracious
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Business is about helping other people.
the entire Torah and all the history of the Jewish experience supports the view that to achieve long-term success in business, you have to learn how to behave in the moral, ethical, and courteous way that the good Lord intended.
If you are in business, then in almost everything you do, satisfying at least one other person is...
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Business should remind you that most other people are not particularly interested in how you feel; they care how you act.
Yet the real world truth is that cooperation with others is the key to success. This is the secret of the corporation.
