Why bother with effort? That was the question we were left with at the end of the last post in Mindset Mastery 118. If you recall this was the story of the woman who had prepared a complete biographical portfolio for her son to help him land a job after college—a task that seems like overkill.

Why Go To Extra Lengths?

The answer is this—”Doing something well is never trouble! The plan prepared by this woman to benefit her son helped him get the job he was applying for, at the first interview, at the salary he named.”

Moreover—and this is important, too—the position did not require the young man to start at the bottom. He began as a junior executive, at an executive’s salary.

Do you still ask “Why go to all this trouble?”

Planning In Presentation

Well, for one thing, the planned presentation of this young man’s application for a position took off at least ten years of time he would otherwise have spent just to get to where he began if he had “started at the bottom and worked his way up.”

This idea of starting at the bottom and working your way up may appear to be sound, but the major objection to it is this–too many of those who begin at the bottom never manage to lift their heads high enough to be seen by opportunity, so they remain at the bottom. You should also know that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill ambition. It’s called “getting into a rut,” which means that we accept our fate because we form the habit of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we stop trying to throw it off. And that is another reason why it pays to start one or two steps above the bottom. By doing so a person forms the habit of looking around, of observing how others get ahead, of seeing opportunity, and of embracing it without hesitation.

Pave Your Own Way

This lesson is so applicable to so many aspects of life; it even applies to wealth creation. Why start at the bottom rung and fight to find your way to wealth—and more likely to get discouraged and never achieve personal prosperity? With all the excellent wealth creation resources, books, seminars, courses, blogs, websites, social media and more that is out there, why go the route of the unproven struggle, why not pave your way with the success of others who have gone before you? By doing just that you can cut at least ten years off your learning curve, too.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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