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Part of the extra value people create beyond their pay benefits their employers. That benefit is why they were hired.
If you visualize some day in your future when you will no longer “have to work,” you are subconsciously slowing down already. If your goal is to reach a certain age and then retire, by the time you reach that age, your wealth will be far less than it would have been if you had reached that age with no thoughts of retirement in mind.
A wise employer helps his people see the vital role they play each day. Everyone needs to feel useful.
The first lie is that all your work and human creativity is focused on some end, rather than having value in and of itself.
Allowing the retirement myth into your brain encourages you to absorb the mindset that insists you work only in order to live. In reality, you do live in order to work.
Work is a good thing for man—a good thing for his humanity—because through work man not only transforms nature, adapting it to his own needs, but he also achieves fulfillment as a human being. Work expresses his dignity and increases it: It provides him with the wherewithal to have a family, and it links him with his neighbor. Not to mention also contributing to the wealth of his neighbors.7
focus on what others need from you and that you can provide. In other words, follow the money.
Remember how you hated mathematics, chemistry, or English composition at school? You might also remember how you later came to enjoy the same subject. What changed was nothing but your level of achievement.
As an ambitious and successful business professional, you should always keep in mind that everything you do must benefit others as much as yourself.
The second lie promoted by the retirement myth is that as time goes by you become weaker and less capable of making money.
The truth is that unless my business is pounding another boxer in the ring or charging up a field while clutching a football, each passing day makes me a more effective wealth creator and grants me added potential to create revenue.
The history of civilization is one of nations and cultures growing and then dying.
God placed man into the Garden of Eden to work it. Judaism teaches that this 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.
You work not because you need the results of that work but because there is intrinsic meaning and value in the work itself.
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.
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.
work is chiefly about how other people will benefit from your efforts. It may be today or it maybe in the future, but engaging in work is a moral, benevolent, and caring thing to do.
You can never become an accomplished scholar without allowing numbers to root you in reality. Stories allow your imagination to soar unencumbered by anything as inconvenient as the laws of physics. Numbers are real and can reflect reality far more quickly and far more accurately than stories.
Business should remind you that most other people are not particularly interested in how you feel; they care how you act.
