051825 From The Banks of Burcham Creek...

 From the banks of Burcham Creek…

I have selected these quotes from the
Archive because they are appropriate
I believe at this time of High School
And College graduations and due
To this past week at work.

Last week we had a serious
Technology failure that affected
our productivity to a great degree.

It was interesting to see how
Our fellow workers handled
This unforeseen situation.

Some took time and went
Home a.s.a.p.
While some with less seniority
stayed and worked thru the obstacle.

That’s how I was raised.
We work till the job is done.
- Hayden Childs

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Every person is going to leave a legacy.
What kind of legacy do you want to leave?
- Bob Proctor

Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall,
don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it,
go through it,
or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

It is your decisions,
and not your conditions,
that determine your destiny.
- Anthony Robbins

A character standard is far more
important than a gold standard.
the success of all economic systems
is still dependent upon both
righteous leaders and righteous people.
- Roger Babson

The successful leader does not
talk down to people.
He lifts them up.
- Richard Milhouse Nixon

For employee success,
loyalty and integrity are equally
as important as ability.
- Harry F. Banks

The secret of the true
love of work is the hope
of success in that work,
not for the financial reward,
for the time spent,
or for the skill exercised,
but for the successful result
in the accomplishment
of the work itself.
- Sidney A. Weltmer

Consider the postage stamp.
It secures success through
its ability to stick to one thing
till it gets there.
- Josh Billings

People can't live with change
if there's not a changeless
core inside them.
The key to the ability to change
is a changeless sense of
who you are,
what you are about and
what you value.
- Stephen Covey

A successful life is not an easy life.
It is built upon strong qualities,
sacrifice, endeavor, loyalty, and integrity.
- Grant D. Brandon

The will to win,
the desire to succeed,
the urge to reach your full potential…
these are the keys that will unlock the
door to personal excellence.
- Coach Eddie Robinson

Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Coach Lou Holtz

Success is not a 'sometimes' thing.
In other words, you don't do what
is right occasionally, but all the time.
Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
- Coach Vincent Thomas Lombardi

No problem is insurmountable.
With a little courage, teamwork
and determination a person can
overcome anything.
- B. Dodge

Success is measured by pursuing
your unique mission in this world
with a burning desire to make
a difference and leave a legacy in
order to be proud of the who I am
and the what I stand for.
- Jared Yellin

If all the gold in the world were
melted down into a solid cube,
it would be about the size of an
eight room house.
If a man got possession of all that gold…
billions of dollars’ worth…
he could not buy a friend, character,
peace of mind, clear conscience or
a sense of eternity.
- Charles F. Bunning

We are at our very best,
and we are happiest,
when we are fully engaged in work
we enjoy on the journey toward the
goal we’ve established for ourselves.
It gives meaning to our time off and
comfort to our sleep.
It makes everything else in life so
wonderful, so worthwhile.
- Earl Nightingale

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touchdown.
- H. Ross Perot

The common denominator of success…
the secret of success of every person
who has ever been successful…
lies in the fact that
"THEY FORMED THE HABIT OF DOING
THINGS THAT FAILURES DON'T LIKE TO DO."
Via The Common Denominator of Success
by Albert E.N. Gray

No one ever attains very eminent
success by simply doing what is
required of him.
it is the amount and excellence of
what is over and above the required
that determines the greatness of
ultimate distinction.
- Charles Kendall Adams

Never let the fear
Of striking out
Get in your way
- George Herman “Babe” Ruth


One of the secrets to success…
Andrew Tobias,
the financial author put it this way.
- Go down any day to the waterfront,
and you will find a crowd of unhappy people.
Someone will be having trouble getting the
motor on their yacht to crank.
Someone else will be scraping barnacles.
Another will be repainting.
Things just don't make you happy.
Property brings problems.
It is like an alligator that takes a bite out of
your pocket every time you turn around.
Don't be burdened by too many material things.
As you go through life,
one of the secrets of success is to travel light.
- Anonymous

One day Mr. Shoaff said,
"Jim, if you want to be wealthy and happy,
learn this lesson well…
Learn to work harder on yourself
than you do on your job."
Since that time, I've been working on my
own personal development.
And I must admit that this has been the
most challenging assignment of all.
This business of personal development
lasts a lifetime.
You see,
what you become is far more important
than what you get.
The important question to ask on the job is not,
"What am I getting?"
Instead, you should ask,
"What am I becoming?"
Getting and becoming are like Siamese twins…
What you become directly influences what you get.
Think of it this way…
Most of what you have today you have attracted
by becoming the person you are today.
TO HAVE MORE THAN YOU'VE GOT,
BECOME MORE THAN YOU ARE…
This is where you should focus most of your attention.
Otherwise, you just might have to contend with the
axiom of not changing, which is…
UNLESS YOU CHANGE HOW YOU ARE,
YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE WHAT YOU'VE GOT…
-Jim Rohn

No one ever attains very eminent
success by simply doing what is
required of him.
it is the amount and excellence of
what is over and above the required
that determines the greatness of
ultimate distinction.
- Charles Kendall Adams

In this excerpt from the Magic Ladder to Success,
Napoleon Hill infers the principle of Going the
Extra Mile as
“The habit of doing more than you are paid for.”
This is one of the simplest of success principles,
yet it is the one that most people do not practice.
The extra mile principle does not mean that you
have to apply twice as much effort to truly succeed.
Let me give you an easy example of what I mean.
In Major League Baseball, a lot of players have
long-term contracts that total millions of dollars.
Alex Rodriguez had a contract that totaled $252 million.
A ballplayer who comes to bat 10 times and gets 2 hits
has a batting average of .200, and unless he improves,
he will, before long, no longer be a major leaguer.
But if that same player, by developing his skills and
training approaches the plate 10 times and gets 3 hits,
he will increase his average to .300.
A .300 hitter in the major leagues can write his own ticket.
Just think… in the first example, he got 2 hits in every
10 times at bat and did not succeed,
but when he improved and got 3 hits in 10 times,
at bat, he embarked on an excellent career.
What changed was only 1 more hit in every 10 times at bat.
He improved 10 percent, and that 10 percent improvement
will make all the difference in a lifetime in the major leagues.
The same principle can be used in life.
Over a period of time, if you improve only a little,
the cumulative effect will pay huge rewards.
Why would anyone not do a little extra to gain great rewards?
Author and speaker Jim Rohn says that the reason can be
attributed to the mystery of the mind.
We cannot compel others to always go the extra mile,
but there is no reason that each of us cannot apply
the going the extra mile principle in our daily life,
both in our business and in our personal life.
The rewards may not be immediate,
but the principle works every time.
You simply cannot reap what you have not sown.
Going the extra mile entitles you to an increasing return.
Try it; you will never regret your action.

- Don Green
Executive Director Napoleon Hill Foundation

THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN YOU ARE PAID FOR
by Napoleon Hill
This is the second in a series of excerpts from
Napoleon Hill's Magic Ladder to Success.
This law is a stumbling block on which many a
promising career has been shattered.
There is a general attitude among people to
perform just as little service as they can get by with,
but if you will study these people carefully,
you will observe that while they may be actually
“Getting by” temporarily, they are not, however,
getting anything else.
There are two major reasons why all successful people
must practice this Law, as follows…
1. Just as an arm or a limb of the body grows strong in
exact proportion to its use,
so does the mind grow strong through use.
By rendering the greatest possible amount of service,
the faculties through which the service is rendered are
put into use and, eventually, become strong and accurate.
2. By rendering more service than that for which you are paid,
you are turning the spotlight of favorable attention upon
yourself, and it will not be long before you will be sought with
fancy offers for your services, and there will be a continuous
market for those services.
“Do the thing and you shall have the power,”
was the admonition of Emerson, the great modern philosopher.
That is literally true! Practice makes perfect.
The better you do your work, the more adept you become at
doing it, and this, in time, will lead to such perfection that
you will have few, if any equals in your field of endeavor.

“Everything in your life is
an exact duplication of
your consciousness.”
- Mike Brooks

In other words,
whatever images you hold in your mind,
in your consciousness,
will always be manifested outward
as your experience.  
It is the simplest of truths that
you cannot hold one belief and
image in your mind and manifest another.
Ask yourself,
“Isn’t it true that the results in your life,
in every area, down to every detail,
are an exact mirror of what
you think about it all day long?”

If you’re honest, your answer is yes.
 Now the question may come into your mind,
“Yeah, but the reason I’m thinking about
it all day long is because that’s how it is for me.
The circumstances are there
(I’m not making enough money.
don’t have the house/car/relationship I want, etc.)
so of course that’s what I think about all the time.”

Let me ask you…
“What if it was EXACTLY the other way around?”
What if your thoughts actually caused you to
take repetitive actions that actually CAUSED
the unwanted situations in your life to recur?

If you’re willing to consider that
your thinking and beliefs might be the cause…
rather than the results… in your life,
then you are ready to finally claim the
spiritual power that is the one truth
that rules all of existence…
that everything in your life is an
exact duplication of
your current consciousness.

Riches start from the mind,
not your pocketbook,
bank account or investment.  
The pocketbook, bank account and
investments are the effects, not the cause.
The cause is always an idea or belief.
A person is not rich because they have money.
They have money because they are
rich in consciousness.  They believe that they are rich.
Again, this is the reason that the rich will always get
richer and the poor will always stay poor until they
change their consciousness.”
- Mike Brooks

Edited by H.C.

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