Master Successful Personal Habits by Ziglar Zig;

Author:Ziglar, Zig;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: G&D Media
Published: 2019-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

Relationships and Motivation

By now you probably are more alert to a lot of things around you, but let me give you a little test.

Do you wear a wristwatch? Have you had that wristwatch at least a year?

Now please don’t look at the watch now, but if you’ve had it a year, you’ve looked at it a whole lot of times. The average person looks at their watch about a hundred times a day. (That counts the last ten minutes before lunch and the last ten minutes before they get off.) You ought to know what’s on it.

Now don’t look at your watch, but I want you to answer these questions to yourself.

First of all, what kind of watch do you have?

Second, does that wristwatch have roman numerals or regular numerals, or does it have numerals at all? Are there blanks or slashes or digits or whatever?

What is straight up and down at the 12:00 slot? What’s at the 3:00 slot? Get a picture in your mind. What’s at the 6:00 slot, and what’s at the 9:00 slot?

Now that you have carefully thought it through, I want you, maybe for the first time since you’ve owned the watch, to very carefully look at it.

Am I right to assume that you missed at least one of the questions?

I just said I want you to look very carefully at your watch. Do you remember me saying that? OK, what time is it?

The reality is, we don’t really look. We don’t really listen. We don’t really hear. That’s the reason you will hear some things that bear repeating over and over.

Now we’re going to talk about relationships, because relationships have a direct bearing on your motivation and your attitude in life. How important are they? I love the story of the little guy that interrupted his dad, who was busy at home working. He tried to get his attention, and his dad kind of resisted, and finally the little boy said, “Dad, who do you like best, Batman or Superman?”

The dad said, “I don’t know, son.”

The boy said, “Oh, come on, Daddy. You like one of them best. Which one do you like the best?”

“OK, I like Superman the best.”

The little boy said, “OK,” and he looked at his dad and said, “Aren’t you going to ask who I like best, Daddy?”

The dad said, “All right. Who do you like best?”

“I like Batman.”

“Why do you like Batman?”

“Batman has a friend.”

Isn’t that’s what all of us really want? Aren’t our relationships so enormously important? Yet a lot of times we seem to move them to the back burner. They’re not in our minds. They’re something that can wait for nurturing and developing.

We get wrong information from time to time. When I was a young speaker, I heard a well-known speaker, a philosopher, say that you’re where you are in life because that’s really where you want to be. I’ve always liked to sound philosophical, so I started telling people that you’re where you are because that’s where you want to be.

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