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DON’T LIVE BEYOND YOUR MEANS; INSTEAD GIVE BEYOND YOUR MEANS
Suppose you have started finding ways to make yourself twice as valuable and useful to your employer. Suppose you believe in the intrinsic morality of business, you yearn to lead, and you are sensitive to the future.
People are suspicious of doing business with desperate people.
Desperate people make others uncomfortable.
People are also uneasy about others who appear overeager to become friendly.
Premature use of first names or other very informal salutations, like using someone’s nickname before having been invited to do so, can have the same effect.
One of the very best ways of overcoming that appearance of desperate eagerness is to make yourself feel rich.
magical method of turning yourself into a larger,
nondesperate kind of person, someone who was seen to be more of a giver than a taker, your business interactions would dramatically improve.
If you somehow genuinely felt yourself to be a bigger person than you might really be, the perception of you would change until you ...
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Giving away money is one of the most powerful of all actions that defeats this dangerous tendency.
makes other people want to interact with you.
I am urging you to give money away because it is one of the most powerful and effective ways of increasing your own income.
Eventually, you will have to put your money where your convictions lie.
Will you be able to reach into your pocket, or actually into your bank account, and place much of the wealth you have spent past years accumulating onto the table?
Still, investing in your own efforts is exactly what you must sometimes do.
don’t want to sound too metaphysical, but your object is to create a movement of money from the world around you to you.
You enter the world alone and you depart it alone; but along the way everything of value flows from how effectively you battle that loneliness and how effectively you bond with others. If you retreat into yourself, you are essentially escaping the world that ends at your skin surface.
The point being made by this ancient Jewish insight is that behaving arrogantly isolates you from other people, who justifiably spurn you. The result is that you inevitably begin to retreat into yourself, depending ever more on your own resources, instead of building up bonds of mutual dependency with other people. Part of the very mandate of life granted you by God is the obligation to end your lonely condition and build links to others.
How do you go about excavating money pipelines? The only way to construct these channels is by pumping money outward from you to the world out there.
A tunnel that is excavated to provide access in one direction can subsequently be used to provide access in the reverse direction, too. Sometimes, the only way to get something in is first to dig a route out.
He himself modestly explained how the Torah provided him with the insight to understand that the secrets of the human soul lay beneath one’s everyday consciousness and that physical health was as dependent on the spiritual condition of the soul as it was on the chemical balance in the body.
One of the great obstacles to success is when you harbor deep internal doubt about whether you deserve such success.
Giving regular gifts from your income to charity is one excellent way of, once and for all, persuading your subconscious that you deserve what lies ahead. In this way it will not only end its sabotage, it will begin actively to assist you in your quest.
Naturally, once you think of someone in a certain way, you act in accordance with your thoughts.
By referring to customers in disparaging terms such as “grazer” and “consumer,” industries do a disservice to their own goals and missions. But wait—what is wrong with “consumer”? Well, just consider it; not even an animal is a net consumer. If it were, the farmer would not keep it. A cow may consume $300 of hay and feed each year, but it probably produces $1,200 worth of milk, butter, and cheese during the same period.
Humans are not takers by nature. Humans do far better as givers.
Charity is irrational.
if you view your creative, professional life as an exciting, ongoing process with no defined expiration date, you avoid limiting your potential.
Beliefs shape one’s actions far more than facts do.
whippersnapper,
