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Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection — Chapter-82: Promoting Yourself
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- Note: Work: Making of the Man Who Can, section 4 of 9.
Chapter 4: Promoting Yourself Table of Contents THE SUCCESSFUL LIFE IS THE ADVANCING LIFE; and the advancing life is lived by obedience to the evolutionary principle. The evolutionary principle is that advancement comes by more than filling your present place; and this is true whether you are an employee or are in business for yourself. However, a mere purposeless doing of more work than is required will not advance you; it will probably only tend to keep you where you are. If you are an employee and have no ambition but to more than fill your present place, it will be to your employer’s interest to keep you in your present place; and he will probably do so. You must know what you want to be, and you must more than fill your present place for the purpose of becoming what you want to be. Do not do extra work with the idea that by so doing you may curry favor with your employer; that will put you in a servile attitude, and out of the attitude of self-direction. Do not do it in the hope that those above you will see your good service and promote you; they may find it more profitable to keep you where you are. Do what you do with the purpose of promoting yourself. You are more than filling your place in order to develop your faculties for filling a larger place; if your employer does not offer you one when you are ready for it, offer yourself to another employer. There are always places for the Advancing Man. Keep your mind fixed on what you want to be, and more than fill your present place; your mental attitude will make you quick to see every opportunity for bettering your condition, and you will be competent to take advantage of
opportunities when they come. Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; be all that you can today, and when an opportunity to be more is offered to you, take it. There is no such thing as lack of opportunities for the man who is living the advancing life, and who has an advancing mind. Everything that touches your life is an opportunity, if you discover its proper use. Every circumstance, every seeming misfortune, every person you meet, every dog that barks at you, or wags his tail as you pass—all have some element of usefulness to you if you will find it. Study them all, for they are your opportunities. Most men fail by waiting for some particular kind of opportunity, instead of being ready to seize every opportunity. Steadily hold the picture of all that you want to attain in person, property and environment; live the advancing life within, by more than filling your present place; live the accumulative life without, by acquiring everything you meet which belongs in your picture, and you cannot fail. The stars in their courses will fight for you; your success will be made by the evolutionary principle, the creative power of the universe.