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Og Mandino’s Own Personal Story of Successby Og Mandino |
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”HENRY DAVID THOREAU |
BIG IDEA
Going the extra mile
FROM THE BOOK“There is an answer, a solution, a rule, and I’ll wager that it has never failed for those who have truly applied it.
When it comes to improving the career side of your life, the greatest secret of success was delivered to us from a mountaintop, nearly two thousand years ago, when Jesus told us that if we were compelled to go a mile with someone, we should always go two. The extra mile.
If you resolve, beginning tomorrow, to put out more on your job than you’re getting paid to do, miracles will begin happening in your life. Whatever you are doing for a living, whether you’re selling products, painting houses, manning computers, or sweeping floors—if, each day, you do more than you’re getting paid for, your life’s pattern will soon change for the better.”
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Brian's Notes
You want to see MIRACLES in your life?
Do your best. Go the extra mile. Every.single.day. That’s Rule #2.
Let’s be direct for a moment, shall we?
Have you ever REALLY done your best? I mean really, truly, given your absolute best to your life for more than a fleeting moment or day or even week?
Imagine your life when you LIVE from that place moment to moment to moment.
That’s the heart of what we talk about in these Notes again and again and again.
Areté.
Expressing the highest version of yourself—where there’s no gap between what you’re capable of being/doing and what you’re ACTUALLY being/doing.
Going the extra mile. Doing our best.
Here’s another way to look at it via Matthew Kelly (see Notes on The Rhythm of Life + Perfectly Yourself). He tells us to imagine an athlete who wants to win an Olympic gold medal.
Do they ask themselves, “What’s the *least* I can do to get the gold?”
OF COURSE NOT.
That’s absurd.
They ask, “What’s the MOST I can do to give myself the best shot at winning?!” And then they go do it.
What do YOU ask yourself?
Here’s to going the extra mile—doing more than we’re expected (and/or paid) to do. Today. Every day.
Big Ideas
01: THE 17 RULES
02: AIR-CASTLES
03: COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
04: GOING THE EXTRA MILE
05: DEAD AT MIDNIGHT
“Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity! There is a better way to live!”OG MANDINO |
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