The Topmost Steeple
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple,
But God declared: "Go down again, I dwell among the people."

         -- Louis I. Newman

Breakthrough personal accomplishments place you at the mountaintop. True leadership places you in the valley. In the landscape of your life, both mountain and valley are necessary, indispensable formations. It is necessary that you strive to run ahead of your peers and rise to the top of your heap. It is that hunger and drive for personal achievement from which excellence is born.

Upon attaining some level of excellence and competence, don't let it die with you. Get off your high horse now; return and impart to those who do not yet have what you have been given. Build them and boost them; love them and lift them. In order to qualify truly as leader, it is necessary that you go back to the low places and serve with all your heart. It is that passion and compassion of which greatness is born.

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Before you gained all this experience and professional competence, where did you live and grow? From what group or community did you emerge into your current place of skills and knowledge? Today, take the first action step--make that first phone call to return and serve.

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 Don't Wait to Be Great

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)

To do the good and achieve the great, too many people look to distant lands and future times when they will accomplish something extraordinary and meaningful. In the mean time, the pathway to great opportunity lies right at their feet, beckoning them to make the first simple steps, here and now.

Do you ever hunger to touch mankind and leave an indelible mark of greatness and goodness next to your name? If so, you don't have to travel to another continent to feed the poor or migrate to distant lands to quell their pain. Just walk uprightly, deliberately and with purpose, to touch the lives God puts in your path today--right where you are. The cumulative effect of doing the small things well each day is to make you ready for the moments when life presents huge opportunities before you. Like the quiet, diligent caterpillar, live daily in preparation for the time of transformation when wings explode into the skies.

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Each day this week, do something good for somebody...give an encouraging word, impart some wisdom, lift up the fallen, or in some other way, make an impact for goodness right where you live and work.

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Security vs Opportunity

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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. 
They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)


In the search for opportunity, we look for ways to increase the good. In the search for security, we look for ways to prevent the bad. The former is far more liberating than the latter...for when we focus on a thing, the thing enlarges. Our preoccupation with preventing trouble brings trouble itself. Clearly, security is not unimportant, but we can get so captivated and imprisoned by it that opportunity cannot penetrate our walls.  

Today, as talk of doom and gloom fills the airwaves, be not afraid. Do not erect emotional walls of security in anticipation of it. Now is the time to open your doors and welcome new fortunes...to redefine yourself for the new realities that beckon...to pursue that dream that has laid dormant for years...to get that patent and bring to life that invention for which mankind waits.ACTION: Take this Power Pill All Week Long

Make a conscious decision that the messengers of economic ruin will NOT cause you to fear. While others worry and complain, begin to search avidly for increase, improvement, expansion, advancement and promotion. That which you seek will seek you.

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Monday Morning Power Pill 
Time=Currency of Life

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.   Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

Time is the currency by which to measure the passage of your life. How are you spending it? Do you spend it deliberately, or is it being used up involuntarily by people, institutions and uncontrolled circumstances?

The average person has no mastery of how his or her time is consumed. Why? It is because the average person is not driven by great purpose. Is your life--at the base, gut level--driven by some noble cause--a dream that's bigger than you?  Do you have a reason to live, or are you alive just because you are still breathing? Choose to live on purpose. Experience the passion that impels you to manage and invest your time toward the attainment of meaningful purpose.

ACTION: Take this Power Pill All Week Long
For three days in a row, keep a log of how you spend your time, for each 24 hour period. This is not an easy task. It requires discipline and diligence. However, when you calculate the percentage of time you spend in various types of activities, you will likely get deeply instructional insights into the passage of your life.

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