Maintaining a Good Account
One of the
principles you learn on the journey to achievement is that life is like a
personal account. Every day you either
make a deposit or a withdraw. If you
make more deposits than withdraws, you have a full and successful life. If you make more withdraws than deposits, you
live in a constant state of overdraft.
Success-minded people must understand that there is no getting away from
or changing this principle. Every day,
without fail, you must make the right deposits to your life account to be
successful.
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"Life is a
process of accumulation. We either
accumulate the debt or the value,
the regret or
the equity."
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Jim Rohn
(1930-2009)
Author/Speaker
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#1: Your Attitude Account
Attitude, like all main areas of
life, is a choice. You choose to be
happy, pleasant and positive or you choose otherwise. Your attitude does not depend on your
problems, challenges, circumstances or station in life. Whether you are young or old, rich or poor,
strong or weak, you and you alone have full control of your attitude. If you choose to be positive and to see life
as a gift that you can enjoy, then that will be the reality you will live. If you are mad all the time and feel you
never succeed or are never happy, that will be your reality as well. Start every day with a positive and excited attitude
and you will find life is really a fun ride.
#2: Your People Account
How we treat people is one of
the most important things we deal with every day. Those who are unpleasant and rude will fine
they have little real friends and that people will do little to help you. However, those who are pleasant and cheerful
to everyone they meet, are rich with friends and people who love and respect
them. They will also find that people
are willing and eager to open doors of opportunity for them. There is an old saying that some people make
others happy when they come into a room and some make others happy when they
leave the room. Be in the first group.
#3: Your Financial Account
I am not only talking of your
bank account here. The truth is, how
much money we have has little to do with our happiness or contentment in
life. It is our attitude about money
that is important. Success-minded people
need to study what it means to gain and have wealth. If I were to tell you to describe what a
wealthy person is like I will wager that you will get it wrong. People (who do not have wealth) think that
wealthy people spend their time buying expensive things, being lazy and are
nasty in general. The reality is that
wealthy people are wealthy because they have followed certain principles. They save, not waste, their money. They do not do foolish things with money like
buy what they cannot afford, buy lottery tickets or hoard it. They understand that one must be sensible
with money, generous and respectful. This
is worth the time to consider.
#4: Your Work Account
How you feel about and apply
work habits will determine if you will achieve your goals in life or not. Nothing happens without hard work. Hard work is not a punishment or something to
look down on. What makes successful
people successful is that they are willing to work. They welcome work and never avoid it. People who are unwilling to work for what
they want in life will never achieve their dreams. They can blame it on the economy, other
people or the job market, but failure comes down to one place - YOU.
There is and will always be work to do.
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© 2017 John Patrick Hickey. No part of
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