RECOGNIZE ITS ARRIVAL
ONCE THE DREAM is realized, recognize it- then relax.
Don't curb ambition just greediness.
Enjoy what you worked for.
Don't become obsessed with a restless urge for more and
more success, more and more accomplishments.
Relax a little and enjoy your Castle in Spain.
Once you are sure the goal is realized, that you haven't
settled for less, that your dreams are fulfilled, then learn how
to enjoy them.
Why work for a dream, then not enjoy its arrival ?
That would be like broiling a good, sizzling steak, then
passing it up to cook a pot of beans just to prove you can also
cook beans.
Learn when to stop that forward surge.
Ambition Is Not Greediness
There is a difference between being ambitious, and being
greedy. It is all right to have ambitions providing you recog-
nize their arrival and quit when you've made them come
completely true.
Only too often the urge to become even a greater success
keeps you going, and soon like any warrior who tried to
conquer too much of the world, you are doomed.
The doctors get you. The undertaker begins to tip his hat
to a prospect for his business.
Greed leads to a break-down. You fail to appreciate things
any longer.
That mink coat looks cheap to you beside a sable. That
Cadillac you dreamed about looks inferior now to a Rolls
Royce.
You are "poor" once more.
Greed has taken you for a ride.
Happy People Enjoy Success
If you don't realize that today's success was yesterday's
daydream, then you won't enjoy your present good fortune.
You prod yourself on to newer fortunes. Soon you are a
"poor man" because you have lost all sense of proportion.
Even caviar and champagne is old stuff to you.
A kid with a hamburger enjoys himself more than you.
The cycle has turned, and is taking you back. You will
soon land, mentally, back behind that ribbon counter, in that
upper berth calling on the trade, in a small kitchen wonder-
ing "wot hoppened!"
This is "wot hoppened": You failed to appreciate your
success.
You got success but bled it too much. You liked the taste,
then pushed it on and on, until the doctor warned you, the
insurance man avoided you, and you were as poor as a church
mouse.
Too often someone uses this wonderful formula, finds it
works easy, then plays the tune so often it lacks pleasure
for him.
He fails to realize that today's happiness is what he
dreamed about yesterday; that today is what he wished to be
in his dreams of yesterday.
Recognize success. Then sit back and enjoy it when it
comes. Happy is the person who can enjoy today and
not be too concerned about tomorrow.
Don't settle for less but don't prod yourself for too much.
The Doctor of Dolls
One of my 1,000 Success Secrets is T. E. Burton, Jr., of
Richmond, Virginia, who took up "doctoring/'
As a student in the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore,
he took an interest in dolls, since he had repaired two for
his children.
Friends came to him with their broken dolls, then friends
of friends.
Soon he began to get mail-order jobs. He charges $3 for
a "minor operation" and as high as $20 for a "major opera-
tion."
Burton has become a success in a business he likes, one he
dreamed about while employed for the Department of High-
ways in Virginia.
But he knows how to enjoy that dream. He isn't going on
now thinking about a big office in the Empire State Building,
nor of becoming a real M.D.
He is content with being a "doctor of dolls."
He didn't think, "If I become a good mender of dolls,"
but, "How can I ?" and when he reached his goal, he
relaxed so he could drink in his success to the full.
A Good Rule to Remember
"A monkey clad in silk is a monkey still"
How many people do you know who spend great effort to
amass a fortune yet make no effort to improve their most
important asset - character?
They apparently have never heard of the Spanish proverb
above.
We can all gain much from this proverb.
As we go about from day to day, attempting to reach the
top of our field, let's remember that silver and gold are not
necessarily the marks of the successful man.
The greatest men of our time, in fact, have been famous
because of outstanding character!
It is a very good thing, of course, to amass a fortune, if
we use it wisely and if we build on a solid foundation of
personal honesty.
As we try to climb upward, however, let's not bury the
Golden Rule with the rest of our gold at Fort Knox!
There's the Story of Bud
Another of the 1,000 people who have become a success,
in the past few years, then knew enough to stop and enjoy
it, is Bud Ward of Norwichtown, Connecticut.
Bud is a spastic, with arms and legs strapped to his sides.
He learned from his dreams that he wanted to repair
radios. He Knew What He Wanted, (Step One). He
couldn't put it on paper, but he Put It on His Mind, (Step
Two). He Knew Where to Start, by reading books on how
to repair radios, (Step Three).
He Put His Idea into Motion, (Step Four), by hiring a
man with nimble fingers to work as he directed, since,
remember, he had his own arms strapped to his side.
He Didn't Settle for Less than a radio repair business,
(Step Five), but when he Recognized Its Arrival, (Step
Six), he didn't become greedy and try for a chain of shops.
He is content to enjoy his dream a repair workshop for
radios. He repairs with his brain as his helper and "right
hand", Eugene Raymond, works with his hands.
Success Can Come and Go Fast!
Once you get success, watch out it doesn't flee you as
suddenly as it came through neglect!
Remember the famous movies, What Price Glory and
Seventh Heaven?
Remember the old stars Theda Bara, the first vamp, and
Annette Kellerman, who made famous the one-piece swim
suit?
Well, a pants-presser is responsible for them, William Fox,
who is his own rags to riches story but with a tragic ending.
His pants-pressing boss refused to give him a $3 raise. He
quit He used the Six Steps to Success and started the nickel-
odeon in Brooklyn.
This was the forerunner of the Fox Films in Hollywood,
soon to be worth millions with Fox, himself, insured for
$6,400,000.
But his kingdom crashed in 1929. It was almost "easy
come, easy go" to this Hungarian immigrant and the moral
is in Step Six, "Recognize Its Arrival" and "know when to
relax." Otherwise you might lose everything.
Don't Die "Poor"
Too many people die "poor." They dream about a fortune
in a Castle in Spain on the top of the biggest hill in their
town.
They gain it. Then being on top, they have no place else
to go, so they try for the moon.
Over-investing investing the "second time" often ruins
them.
They knew their first business. But being restless, they
venture into other businesses. They go broke.
Either that, or they are caught in the whirlpool of success
and can't get out mentally. They die "poor."
Squeeze your dream dry. Don't settle for less, but when
you get it, relax and enjoy it.
Don't Reach for the Moon Who Wants It Anyway!
