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loving, obedient and disciplined children
which you realize will make your life,
theír lives and the lives of others more
happy.
In the "business and financia!" area,
you may genuinely wish to remain in
the field in which you find yourself.
Your goal may be to become more ef–
fective and more successful in this field
through developing better attitudes and
more successful working methods.
Or, if you are young or just starting
out, you may wish to change the field of
endeavor in which you are now begin–
ning. This, of course, is not an action to
take lightly and should only be done
after much thought, wise counsel and
advice.
In all these areas of life, however,
one thing is certain - you must find
out your own basic tendencies, strengths,
talents, abilities as well
as
weaknesses
and dislikes. Then you need to choose
and chart your own course toward
success. Otherwise, you will simply
lose by default and be buffeted about
by circumstances and the winds of
chance to a final destination of medioc–
rity or abject failure.
So in each of the above areas of suc–
cess, define your own personal and prac–
tica! goals.
Do be practica! and reasonable and
take your own talents, tendencies and
weaknesses into account. But on the
other hand, insist that your goal be high
enough to give you something to reach
for and satisfy your own deep-down
realization of what success for you
should be in each particular area.
Area by area, write these goals down.
Have a purpose - plan for the fu–
ture. Kindle within yourself a sense of
enthusiasm, drive and anticipation of.
achieving your worthwhile goals.
Then begin to work toward these
goals systematically and continually.
Think, read and educate yourself
toward achieving each of these goals.
Don't go overboard or become unbal–
anced. Use wisdom and common sense.
Get the advice and counsel of others
whom you respect on how best to
achieve the goals you have in mind.
Remember that unless you want
events and blind chance to control you,
you will have to set your sights and
master yourself and your environment.
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PLAlN TRUTH
You will have to define your goals -
absolutely determine to succeed - and
drive toward achievíng your goals with
relentless zeal and enthusiasm!
Develop Successful W orking
Methods
Whether in planning activities in
your work or business or in considering
the need to spend time in family fun
and fellowship or in child rearing, you
need to learn to schedule and organize
your time.
Nearly every successful person knows
this. Very often this is one of the out–
standing keys to their success
!
Taking into account your individual
goals in the three areas of success we
have described, learn to plan out an
overall schedule for each day, week and
month.
Allow yourself enough time in the
area of business and career success, in–
duding extra reading and self-education
assignments. Allow plenty of time for
family, friends and fun - especially to
really build the right relationship
between you and your mate, and with
your children as well. Theo be sure to
plan and schedule enough time for
development of personal and spiritual
interests.
Many of you wiJl .find it extremely
profitable to buy a book oo the proper
use of time in scheduling. There are
several such books available which are
worthwhile. One of these I personally
recommend is,
How to Gain an Extra
Hortr Every Day,
by Ray Josephs,
published by
E.
P. Dutton Company,
Inc.
In scheduling your day, you should
certainly allot definite períods of tin1e to
consíder the big questíons of life -
why are we, what are we, where are we
going and how are we progressing
toward the real purpose of human
existence.
In your personal work day, learn to
write clown the things you want to do.
This in itself saves much time and ef–
fort later on. Many people call these
little slips or cards "to do" lists.
Put First Things First
Learn to put .first things .first. Don't
neglect minor issues, but get at the big
jobs early in your working day and
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allow plenty of time for their
accomplishment.
Concentrate on one thing at a time!
As you begin on one project, learn to
discipline yourself so that other jobs,
interruptions and mind-wanderings do
not intrude.
If
at all practica!, stick
with this one job until you finish it. Put
al! your energy and mind power into
this one thing and complete it with zest.
The late President Eisenhower was a
strong believer
in
one thing at a time.
UPI
BERNARD BARUCH
So was the famous counselor of Presi–
dents, Bernard Baruch, who said:
"l
find my greatest time saver is to do one
thing at a time and stick to it until
finished."
If
you've got a particularly important
job coming up on a certain day and you
know that office interruptions - or
"child interruptions," if you're a mother
-
may interfere with its accom–
plishment, then learn to get up early
and get goíng full blast before these
interruptions can interfere.
Or, if your mind and body function
better the other way, occasionally work
late at night when the office is quiet or
the children are already in bed. You
will gain time for uninterrupted
thoughts and work in this way.
lt
may sound old-fashioned or diffi–
cult, but the really top leaders in busi–
ness and industry often .find themselves
doing this sort of thing in order to get
the job done.