The Prosperity & Wealth Bible. Kahlil Gibran
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in Tune.
There is not a man or business that cannot increase its efficiency over and over again by the application of this simple rule of Harmony — cutting out the Discords — getting back into Accord with the Purpose at hand.
Get in Tune.
Think of the lost Energy and lost Life through your failure to keep in Harmony with your best Thinking or with the Concern that honors you by employing you. Do you realize that what you are carelessly discarding can never be secured again? Stop — this very minute — the leaking of Smiles, high Purposes, big Resolves. Rebellious Thinking cuts into the Heart of your life Force and drizzles it away.
Wake up! There are no dreary days to the Alert the Masterful. To you who determine to Win, the story of the Stars and the Planets that do their work in perfect Harmony, is the Inspiration that makes every working minute of Your day Wonderful and Livable!
Get in tune.
Essentials
Do you want to DOUBLE your Efficiency, your Influence, your Results — your very Life? Here’s a Secret — cut out the NON-essentials.
Give your Time to Things that Count.
Half the “Faithful” Employees, the “Always-to-be-depended-upon” people that fill the Offices and Shops of the land, are nothing more nor less than just “Putterers,” and their Employers are too blind to see it. They do their work from day to day — but they take twice the Time necessary and thus WASTE for their Employers one-half.
Give your Time to Things that Count.
Did you ever watch the Doer, the Executive, the Leader — at his job? He instantly sees the BIG things in his Correspondence; immediately he sees the LARGE side of an Employee or of a Problem. Then he dismisses the NON-essentials, and sees that the Essentials are DONE — carried out according to his orders. Such a man is usually the one, too, that does the most and yet always has TIME — for things Worth While.
Give your Time to Things that Count.
Try to pick out the things in your Work To-day that really look Essential. Then push aside and away, the useless details. Concentrate on Essentials. For you will never Count in this world unless you —
Give your Time to Things that Count.
Humanism
Isms are a part of the progress of the race. Here’s the best of all — Humanism. Humanism, we will say, is the art of just being Human.
Get back to being Human.
To be Human is to be Yourself, through and through. And anybody that tries to be Human usually tries a lot of things that turn out to be, in the eyes of others who never think of being Human, very silly and very blundering. But that is the delight of it all! The big, strong people are those who are unusually Human.
Get back to being Human.
The Man of Affairs that can see the feeling side of the fellow who puts his coat on; the Woman of Wealth and Society who is able to be Human in the presence of her kitchen girl — they are following out the teaching of Humanism.
Get back to being Human.
Evil Prosperity makes the Snob. Adversity and Catastrophe make the Human.
Get back to being Human.
There are fewer Human beings in Business than there should be. Because men forget that their helpers are not machines, but Blood and Bone and Brain and Heart — and Feeling. If every person who reads this little talk would enter upon his or her work to-day determined to act like a Human being, think what Happiness would be added to this day! For to be Human is to be Kind, Considerate, Generous, Forgiving, Helpful, Inspiring, as well as to make Mistakes and Err.
Wanted
Wanted — at once — one thousand men of all ages, up to 90, who are experienced in the art of Smiling.
We want men who have learned the value of a Smile not only when everything goes along smoothly but those who have learned to Smile when everything goes dead wrong and when it seems as though nothing on earth is worthwhile.
That’s the kind of Smilers we want.
We want TRAINED Smilers. We want habitual Smilers — confirmed Smilers, Smilers that have the knack of giving away Smiles. We want Smilers who know how to produce Smiles on the faces of people where no Smiles ever played before.
We don’t care anything about where you come from or what your business is or how many Ancestors you may have had. You must have the business of Smiling absolutely mastered. And we don’t want Smilers who have learned to Smile but a part of the day or on “set” occasions.
We want the Chronic Smilers. We have a job for you. We ask for One Thousand. We really want every one that we can get. We ask for MEN Smilers. But we actually want just as many WOMEN Smilers.
When do we want them? Now. Where do we want them? Everywhere. Who wants them? Everybody. What for? To make this world the best possible world in which to live.
APPLY — at your own Home or living Place, your Office, or on the Street — wherever your Face takes you. But keep your SMILE with you. For without it — none need apply.
Books
Find out what Books your Friend reads and you’ll know what manner of man or woman you have for a Friend. Books contain the wisdom — as well as the foolishness of the ages. The greatest thoughts, the deepest experiences, the results of the most profound and prolonged experiments, are all embalmed in books.
Grow useful from Books.
The Character of a man is shown by the Books he selects. The Character of a Nation is largely determined by the Books that its men and women read. The wealth of the world is in its Books, not in its Gold and Silver and precious Stones and Structures and Lands.
Grow useful from Books.
Good books are real. They are cross sections of life. They tell the truth and conceal nothing. You take or leave what such a book teaches. You know, without asking, its true value. You think, act, walk, work — live with it. For the time you are of it — a part. You live over the thought that the writer lived. Though long years in his grave — again he breathes, and warmth is in his blood again. How marvelous is a Book!
Grow useful from Books.
Good Books make sympathy a world trait. Progress is but the accumulation of Book power. With books gone the world would rot away. Good Books will put Poetry and Music into your smallest efforts.
Grow useful from Books.
The world’s greatest doers have been the world’s greatest readers. “Read again,” said Napoleon to an officer on board the ship that was taking him into exile forever, “read again the poets; devour Ossian. Poets lift up the soul, and give to man a colossal greatness.”
Grow useful from Books.
Read Good Books regularly and systematically. Learn Books. Love Books. LIVE Books.
Radiate
The most useful body in the heavens is the Sun. It keeps the world out of continual darkness. It Radiates its greatest gift — Light. Also it Radiates its heat — keeps this old Earth warm. Take a lesson from the Sun —
Radiate you Influence.
Make it worth Radiating. Radiate it to your Friends. Radiate it to your Office Helpers. Radiate it in your Public Position. Radiate it through your own approval, and take to heart the responsibility that gives you the chance to make your Influence.
Radiate