Law Of Attraction
Even though she arrives at the office ahead of the regular stenographers
and remains there long after they have watched the clock tick off five
o'clock and quitting time, her hours are shorter by far than are those
of the other workers. Hours of labor do not drag on the hands of
those who are happy at their work.
This brings us to the next step in our description of the exact procedure that you must follow in developing initiative and leadership. Second: You of course understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away, to others. The same applies to the development of initiative.
You can best develop this essential quality in yourself by making it your business to interest those around you in doing the same. It is a well-known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.
If a man embraces a certain creed or religious faith, the first thing he does is to go out and try to "sell" it to others. And in exact proportion to the extent to which he impresses others does he impress himself. In the field of salesmanship it is a well-known fact that no salesman is successful in selling others until he has first made a good job of selling himself.
Stated conversely, no salesman can do his best to sell others without sooner or later selling himself that which he is trying to sell to others. Any statement that a person repeats over and over again for the purpose of inducing others to believe it, he, also, will come to believe, and this holds good whether the statement is false or true. You can now see the advantage of making it your business to talk initiative, think initiative, eat initiative, sleep initiative and practice initiative.
By so doing you are becoming a person of initiative and leadership, for it is a well known fact that people will readily, willingly and voluntarily follow the person who shows by his actions that he is a person of initiative.
In the place where you work or the community in which you
live you come in contact with other people. Make it your business to
interest every one of them who will listen to you, in the development of
initiative. It will not be necessary for you to give your reasons for doing
this, nor will it be necessary for you to announce the fact that you are
doing it. Just go ahead and do it.
In your own mind you will understand, of course, that you are doing it because this practice will help you and will, at least, do those whom you influence in the same practice no harm. If you wish to try an experiment that will prove both interesting and profitable to you, pick out some person of your acquaintance whom you know to be a person who never does anything that he is not expected to do, and begin selling him your idea of initiative.