MY WAGE By J. B. Rittenhouse I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menials hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.
If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don’t be a victim of your circumstance.
Super-successful people aren’t superhuman at all; they’ve just used selected discipline to develop a few significant habits. One at a time. Over time.
The ability to control oneself to determine one’s actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base.
Your talent and abilities are limited resources. Your time is finite. If you don’t make your life about what you say yes to, then it will almost certainly become what you intended to say no to.
When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can’t cover.
To do two things at once is to do neither.” – Publilius Syrus.
When you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them.
No one is self-made.
Success builds on success, and as this happens, over and over, you move toward the highest success possible.
Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list – a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers.
When you say yes to something, it’s imperative that you understand what you’re saying no to.
When people don’t understand the power of the ONE Thing, they try to do too much – and because this never works over time, they end up making a horrific deal with themselves. They go for success by sacrificing their health. They stay up late, miss meals or eat poorly, and completely ignore exercise. Personal.
Equality is a lie. Understanding this is the basis of all great decisions.
There are so many great reasons to devote all of your time and effort to taking and marketing listings. The Millionaire Real Estate Agent grasps the incredible advantages of making, obtaining, and marketing seller listings their primary lead-generation focus, and they do so almost exclusively. Over time, they will hire one or more buyer specialists to work the buyer side of the business and concentrate their energy on the high-return, high-leverage business of listings.
Voltaire once wrote, “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Sir Francis Bacon added, “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” Indira Gandhi concluded that “the power to question is the basis of all human progress.” Great questions are clearly the quickest path to great answers.
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself not the life others expected of me.
In an attempt to make it all work, I began to bear down even harder. You might say that I started to clench my way to success. I really did. I thought that this might be the way you went through life – with your jaw clenched, your fist clenched, your stomach clenched, and your butt clenched.
When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.” Every time I see a couple dining with one partner trying earnestly to communicate while the other is texting under the table, I’m reminded of the simple truth of that statement.