Business’s Golden Rule

The Golden Rule works in business as well as in life.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
During the Recession, did you lay anyone off?
You may have been forced to.
You were protecting the jobs of everyone else.
You cut your own pay before you cut theirs.
You paid a greater price with their interests in mind.
You kept everyone on the payroll as long as you could.
When your employees know this, they respect you.
They will work that much harder to take up the slack.
But here is the paradox in this.
If they suspect you of base motives, they won’t respect you.
If you’re doing this only to get more out of them, watch out.
They will sense it. It will destroy your credibility.
The same is true with customers, clients and patients.
Operate in their best interest and they will trust you.
Operate in your interest only and you will lose their trust.
This does not mean you should not take care of business.
A healthy bottom line protects everyone’s job.
Profitable business owners can afford to be independent.
They can afford to do the right things. And they should.
Tell me what you did to weather the Recession.
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The pursuit of happiness

We may pursue happiness
but is that the right strategy?

Our fedral Constitution gives us this guarantee:
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But is pursuit the way to achieve it?
Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne saw the folly in it.
He called happiness a butterfly.
Pursued, it’s always just beyond your grasp.
But sit down quietly, it might alight on you.
John Stuart Mill framed the Happiness Paradox.
To be happy, fix your mind on other things.
Pay attention, he said, to the work at hand.
Even street sweepers, Martin Luther King said.
Be the best street sweeper you can be.
Take pride in the work you have been given.
Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was realistic.
He saw men become frustrated in pursuing happiness.
Our pursuit of material things is pointless, he said.
Once we obtain them, we no longer desire them.
Focus on ideas, actions and goals of value.
Pursue and achieve your great purposes in life.
This is the masterwork God gives to each of us.
Be grateful for and gracious about those gifts.
Happiness comes from:
• Sweeping the best you can sweep.
• Performing the mission you were sent here to do.
Do that and happiness will take care of itself.
Tell me about your own pursuits. What you value.
What your great purpose in life is.
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Get what you want

Keep a daily diary.
Write in it and draw pictures.

Examine the lessons of your day.
Set your goals for tomorrow.

Napoleon Hill practiced this regularly.
Hill wrote the classic “Think and Grow Rich”.
He offers this sage advice:
Note in your diary your good deeds.
Don't let a day end without acts of kindness.
The benefits will be cumulative.
It will place you in the hearts of others.

My mother’s generosity was well-known.
Friends extolled her generosity after her death.

Her children had no idea what she had done.
She knew what giving was all about.

For every favor you receive, give two to others.
The law of increasing returns will operate in your favor.
You get everything you are entitled to receive.

Our friend Ted McGee faithfully practices this law.
Ted gives his time and money to many good causes.
He runs a thriving business but finds time for others.
Ted says the more he gives, the more he receives.
It is fundamental to the Law of Attraction.
The more you do for others, the more they do for you.

This is a two-way highway that must be repaved daily.
Start with your diary.
Note what you did today for others.
This will enforce the idea until it becomes automatic.
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How to make a billion dollars

Donald Trump and Darren Hardy share the prescription for making a billion dollars

Want to know the secret of making a billion?

Donald Trump can tell you.

He’s done it many times.

Darren Hardy of Success magazine recently interviewed him.

Trump, in case you didn’t know, is a billionaire.

Despite a tough guy reputation, Trump was positive.

At one time Trump had been billions of dollars in debt.

A chance meeting at a dinner turned that around.

And it was a dinner he didn’t want to attend . . . but he did.

He believes you must be ready to do things you don’t want to do.

Trump’s prescription to succeed was simple.

To make several billion dollars, here is Trump’s formula:

1. Love what you do.

2. Work hard.

3. Ignore other people’s opinion of you.

4. Work hard even when you don’t want to.

5. Love and care for your people.

6. Never, never, never, ever give up.

That’s it. It’s just that simple.

Hardy gets this answer often from billionaires.

What’s the big difference?

They do this relentlessly, passionately, consistently.

Are you willing to do six things to become successful?

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The value of failure

Michael Aun’s book details

his successes and failures

Our friend Michael Aun isn’t shy about his failures.

He admits to many of them in his new book.

It takes guts to admit your failures in a book.

The book’s title is “It’s the Customer, Stupid”.

Learn from your successes, he writes.

More importantly, learn from your failures.

Failure is the process by which we succeed.

“For every success in my life, I’ve endured 10 failures.

“If you want more success in life, fail more often.

“We need to teach people to fail faster.”

You won’t learn those painful lessons in any text book.

You learn them from the hard knocks of life.

I’m not shilling for Michael but you’ll like this book.

You can order it at http://aunline.com/

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