Please pass this along to everyone you care about.
Ask yourself, “What is my one definite purpose of life — and what plans have I made to attain it?”
In his book “Think and Grow Rich”, Napoleon Hill wrote about Edwin C. Barnes who came to Thomas Edison, the great inventor, looking like a tramp but filled with the “definite” desire to become a business partner. While Mr. Edison did not see him as a business partner, he did hire him to come to work. Eventually, through his “definite of purpose”, he did become Edison’s partner selling the Edison Dictating Machine.
Do you possess the “definite of purpose” in your life? Think if you were to harness that what a tremendous change you could see in your life. Even better, how about if you passed that along to your children and gave them the gift of a boundless, spectacular life.
We would all do better if we take the approach in this poem by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse.
I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.
Jessie B. Rittenhouse, “My Wage,” The Door of Dreams, p. 25 (1918).
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