As I research great books and add to my own professional growth, I love to write it down what I read. Capturing it make me remember it. If your going to consult with others, you have to live your words. It does not however mean you will never have a bad day again in your life. We have to learn to have our moment and bounce back.[/color] Move on from it and learn from our mistakes. It is ok to get upset about a situation. Go ahead and get it out but then move on. Just dont stay there! Here are some food for thought about growth.
Excerpts and quotes taken from the Book by William Thayer, Onward to Fame and Fortune or Climbing Life's Ladder.
SUCCESS: Longfellow said “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, without a thought of fame. Find one thing you love to do and do it well." If you want to start being successful, never waste time.
FAILURE: "So how do we not fail? Failure is as instructive as success. I am a student of failure and know it well. Wise men learn from their mistakes. If we are sensible people, we better learn to manage our tact, our control and our judgment. Mind the little things because great things are the aggregate of little things; great results proceed from little causes. Human life is a succession of unimportant events. A crushing sorrow, the loss of fortune, physical or mental suffering, are the exceptions not the rule of life. Success is won by attention to the little things. Mainly how we think. "
SELF RELIANCE: "The easy thing to do is to have a bad attitude about things, complain that it is every one else’s fault and live in disregard for the truth. The secrets lie within us! We may rely upon ourselves or another person. The one is self-reliance; the other is dependence. The truth of the matter is that we can only really rely on one. That is ourselves. We must have confidence in ourselves and that is built one day, one second, one moment at a time."
THE ART OF WAITING: "To know how to wait is a great secret of success. You see people being impatient with everything because we have been conditioned to do so. It raises our blood pressure and we get angry for the simple seconds it takes for something to happen. Most people have never been taught how to wait. Their impatience ruins their day, their mood and their attitude sours. Patience is the art of waiting; really a fine are, it is so rare. Think about it. How many times do you see people impatient around you? Many will look for a faster way or shorter route but there never is one. If you have to wait, fill your waiting with something constructive. Music, reading or talking with someone you love. Impatience is evidence of mental weakness and perhaps, of moral weakness too."
MENTAL AND MORAL GROWTH: "The secret of growth is to do to-day what we could not have done yesterday. It requires no striving, or extra effort, to do to-morrow. The effort of doing something greater is necessary; for this keeps the faculties at their highest tension, in where this is growth. You have to think on a higher plane. Your mind will be sharper when it has been taxed. Just reading this letter has taken your consciousness to a new level of thinking even if you don’t realize it."
SHORTEST WAY TO SUCCESS: "The shortest and quickest route to one’s destination is a factor int eh problem of life. Busy people desire and seek it, for it saves time and energy. The “longest way around” it not popular."
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