Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

Put People First
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you go to work on yourself and become a better person, better peo-
ple will want to associate with you. This is the indirect way.
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MARRY RICH
Sometimes people say they want to marry a rich person. If you want
to marry a rich person, by the law of indirect effort you had better
get busy working on yourself to become the kind of man or woman
that a rich person would want to marry. You should become very
good at what you do, and develop the manners of an excellent per-
son. Improvement of your life and prospects on the outside begins
with your getting better on the inside.
There have been many studies of social climbers, people who have
joined clubs and organizations in an attempt to associate with other
successful people. Invariably they fail. Why? Because 
like attracts like
.
People are naturally attracted to people who are at the 
same level
that
they are. If you have not developed yourself to achieve a certain level
of accomplishment in your field, you cannot take a shortcut and begin
associating with people at that new higher level.They will not be inter-
ested in you, and you will only end up looking and feeling foolish.
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