All Life Wishes to Reward Its Benefactors
By Jim Rohn
All Life Wishes to Reward Its Benefactors
Parents, leaders, employers, teachers and volunteers: Have you discovered one of the great positive mysteries of life? Here it is: All life seems to wish to reward its benefactors.
For example, instead of saying “What if somebody doesn’t respond” you say, “What if they do respond?” Instead of saying “What if someone says no?” You say, “What if they say yes?” Instead of “What if they start and quit?” say, “What if they start and stay?” or “What if it doesn’t work out?” You say, “What if it does work out?” and the list goes on and on.
If you become the benefactor, you will receive these incredible rewards. If you are the benefactor to the garden, the flowers seem to bloom and say, “Look at me. Look at how bright and beautiful I am because you took care of me. I wish to reward you by being beautiful, lovely and spectacular.”
If you become the benefactor of your own children they want to reward you with their progress. I taught my daughters how to swim. As they were about to dive they’d say, “Daddy, daddy, watch, watch, look, look, watch,” as if to say “Look at what you have created here, you’ve spent the time with me and now look at me. This is the payoff. Watch me dive.” I was their benefactor.
I have found that all life wishes to respond to the benefactor, the people who give their time, give their effort, give their patience, give their ideas and the benefit of their experience. Whatever or whomever has benefited from that, wishes to respond. The crop wishes to grow. The child wishes to show you how much progress they’ve made.
And remember that whatever you move toward tends to move toward you. Just as when you move toward education, education starts to seek you out. Or when you move toward progress and progress seems to want to embrace you. You will find that, just as predictably, as you move toward helping those in your care they will wish to repay you with their own success and accomplishments.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
These articles are by Jim Rohn, America’s Foremost Business Philosopher. He has been internationally hailed over the years as one of the most influential thinkers of our time and has helped motivate an entire generation of personal development trainers as well as hundreds of executives from America’s top corporations. Mr. Rohn and our other recommended “Great Thinkers” books, videos and audiotapes are available under “Sales Tools” at Recommended Reading. To subscribe to the Free Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine, go to www.jimrohn.com or send a blank email to subscribe@jimrohn.com.
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