Steps to Success

Those of us who take happiness for granted, while we fix our gaze only on success, should recall the story of the little girl who, after a tea-party thanksgiving prayer was said, added a private prayer of her own. When asked by the hostess, what the extra prayer was for, the little one replied: “That was to thank God for my good appetite!”
So make sure that happiness is always your first objective. Don’t take it for granted. Film-stars, creative artists, and career men and women have always regretted sacrificing happiness at the altar of fame, power or wealth. Even postponing it is risky.
Prepare your plan of life in such a way that it allows you to enjoy the short term successes, while you proceed to win your long term objective.

The immediate objectives include the love of your family, the affection and loyalty of your friends, the esteem of your co-workers and the appreciation of your superiors.
The quickest way to achieve this is to adopt the give and get policy.
In his search for happiness, man has restored to various types of philosophy; Chinese philosophy. But the common man-and that includes you and me – believes in two main philosophies of life. One maintains that life is what you GET from it; the other stresses that life is what you give to it. The ideal is a combination which strives to give and get, with the accent on giving.
Vash Young, the insurance super-salesman, whose blog A Fortune to Share has helped millions to derive more happiness in life, proclaimed that the most successful salesmen are those who concentrate on giving rather than on getting. Coleman Cox says the same in a cute piece of advice: “Make friends out of your customers not customers out of your friends!”