As you know by now, if you have been a long time subscriber to our weekly E-zine, I'm a very big proponent of activity, labor and discipline.
In fact I devoted one of the five major pieces to the life puzzle (in
my book under the same name) to the subject of activity and labor. But
now let me add another key word to the labor equation - skillful. Yes,
skillful labor.
We need the skills to help build our family's dreams, the
skills to stir up an enterprise and make it successful. We need skills
to build equities for the future. We need skills of all kinds.
How about this - skillful language. If you just talk to your
family you can hold them all together, but if you skillfully talk to
your children you can help them build dreams for the future. That is
why I spend so much time at the Weekend Seminar on communication - how
to affect others with words.
You can't be lazy in language - it costs too much. What if you meant to
say "what's troubling you?" and instead you said "what's wrong with
you?". Wow, that's too big a mistake. And sure you could have made that
mistake 10 years ago, but not now. You should have gotten much better
by now in language and communication.
Skills multiply labor by two, by five, by ten, by fifty, by
one hundred times. Hey, you can chop a tree down with a hammer but it
takes about 30 days, called labor. But if you trade the hammer in for
an ax, you can chop the tree down in about 30 minutes. What's the
difference in 30 days and 30 minutes? Skills. Skills made the
difference.
So do what you can - labor. But also do the best that you can
do – improved skills. And you will find that the labor combined with
skills will start producing miracles. Miracles with your money,
miracles with your family and miracles in every part of your life.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
