Secrets of the Richest Man Who Ever Lived by Mike Murdock

Author:Mike Murdock
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781563940767
Publisher: Wisdom International
Published: 1998-04-12T22:00:00+00:00

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Solomon Willingly Sowed the Miracle Seed of Time Toward His Dream

Time consciousness is the greatest difference between the poor and the prosperous.

As I've mentioned several times, the famed billionaire Sam Walton refused to invest in a company based on what it would become in eighteen months or two years. He was a long-term thinker. He studied what the company would become within ten years. He thought generationally.

Recently, someone explained that the average American business is based on a five-year plan. The most successful and effective Japanese companies create 100-year plans. The difference is profound.

Time is truly the greatest and most significant gift you have ever received on earth.

Think about it.

Time is the currency of earth.

You have traded time for everything you have. You have been unwilling to trade time for everything you do not have.

"I really wish I could lose ten pounds," lamented a friend recently. "But, I simply do not have time to go to a health spa and work out every day. I just wish I had the time to do it!" Now, that very evening my friend watched a television movie for two hours. She was willing to exchange her time for entertainment, but not for a healthy body. Whatever you do not possess right now, you have been unwilling to sow the seed of time to produce.

A major difference exists between the poor and the powerful; the pauper and the prosperous. That difference is the management of time. Consider these personal observations:

1. I have never met an impoverished person who was conscious of time.

2. I have never met a prosperous person who was not conscious of time.

I would never hire anyone who refuses to wear a watch or have an answering machine on their telephone. Why? Because their indifferent attitude toward time is a prediction of their lives. Time is the most precious gift we are given in this life. When we are unwilling to protect, cherish, and celebrate it, we have deliberately sabotaged the master key to successful living.

I spoke at a conference recently. When I finished, a young man came up to me and laughingly said, "When I want to know the time, I simply ask everyone around me. They tell me!"

He missed the point, and in a few short sentences had managed to reveal a major flaw in his character. It was tragic to hear that he deliberately squanders the gift of time he has been given. It is even more tragic to see his willingness to destroy the focus and gift of time for those around him.

The greatest concert pianists on earth invested their most precious gift to develop their talent—the gift of time.

The greatest painters our world has known, those whose work adorns our museums today, invested their greatest gift in the development of their talent—the gift of time.

Show me the barren forest of friendships where the leaves have been stripped, and I will show you a forest where the seed of time has not been sown.

Show me the empty desert

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