The Extra Mile of Thoughtfulness

Every day thousands suffer and weep because people are thoughtless. If you would live truly successfully, you must often walk this extra mile. It will cost you time and trouble, even expense. But it will invest your personality with a golden aura and you ‘ll stand head and shoulders above the thoughtless ones.
This thoughtfulness will take myriad forms. It may mean dropping a word of appreciation to a shop assistant who has been helpful or sending a few flowers to a lonely spinster in hospital or dropping a Christmas card to a pensioner living in one room. It may lead you to give the window-cleaner a cup of tea or cheer the milkman with a word of sympathy as he plods through the slush with your milk.
Thoughtfulness will teach you how to reprimand or correct people without hurting them; for rest assured only if you have not hurt them will you have achieved anything.

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The Extra Mile of Service

All duty is transformed if you regard it as service to the community. But think now of voluntary work in your leisure time.
Millions have never entertained the idea. They are entirely enslaved by self. They think only of their own comfort and enjoyment. They have never heard that ‘It is a happier thing to serve than be served’.
You don’t have to engage in this kind of service. You could refuse and still be a respectable citizen; it is, indeed, the extra mile. Yet thousands testify that every pace of that mile brings rich dividends. Like the quality of mercy, it is twice blessed.
Besides the gratifying knowledge that you have helped others, service widens horizons. It frees from the domination of self. Petty aches, troubles and desires are forgotten when you grapple with another’s problems. Service makes you a bigger person-more understanding, more sympathetic and much happier. In other words it makes you more successful in the art of living.

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The Extra Mile of Gratitude

This old world is crying out for gratitude. Everyone likes to be thanked, to feel that what he has done is appreciated.
Are you grateful to friends for a pleasant evening or a delightful weekend? They don’t merely thank them when you leave. Go the extra mile and send them a note of thanks and perhaps a small gift.
Are you grateful to that surgeon whose skill saved you years of agony or embarrassment, your life even? Did you ever voice your thanks? Lots of people don’t trouble. They make a big mistake. They say either, ‘He was only doing his job; he doesn’t need my thanks,’ or ‘I suppose everyone is gushing with gratitude and he must get stacks of grateful letters. He ‘ll guess I ‘m grateful and won’t need me to say so!’
Remember that doctors are human and their hearts glow when they ‘re appreciated, as yours does. They ‘ll do their work all the better in the future if you walk the extra mile of gratitude.
Ask yourself whether you could gladden a few hearts around you by showing gratitude. Did you ever thank your old teacher, or the teachers of your children? Did you ever thank, really thank, people like the sweep, the dustmen or the paper-boy? Ever dropped a note of thanks to a pilot or a ship ‘s commander to whose skill you owe your life?
A good criterion for measuring your success in life is the number of people you have made happy. Here is a certain way of increasing that number.

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The Extra Mile of Generosity

Because of innate selfishness, most of us find it easier to be mean than generous. If we can get rather than give, we feel we have scored. We love to strike a hard bargain, to sell something for which we have no use. We are gratified if we can sell for more than we gave. In consequence, generous deeds are so rare they provide topics for conversation.
But meanness is, in fact, short-sighted. In reality, we rob ourselves of a light heart and the satisfaction of knowing we have helped another.
‘Give and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down and running over.’ The measure of our giving is the measure of our getting-in friendship, love, joy, even material blessings. The mean selfish life builds its own prison walls and passes sentence of solitary confinement.
Are you making a gift? Go the extra mile. Study the interests of the recipient, spend as much as you can afford and then add a little more!

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Specialize in Your Field Life

Besides being interested in other subjects and learning as much as possible about them, One must thoroughly master the subject of his special choice. It may be his profession, or hobby or interest. But it is necessary that one specializes at least in one subject. You must be a real authority in your favorite field. When you are presented with the opportunity, you should be able to speak with knowledge and confidence on that subject. Such specialization will help you to command the respect of others. It will make your interest in other areas all the more meaningful. For this purpose one should take to something which he likes intensely and go for it in a big way. He should read every possible look on the subject. He must join the appropriate societies or clubs. He must subscribe to the magazine devoted to it. He must attend meetings, see films and participate in debates concerning the subject. Specialization should not make one feel arrogant and superior. There will always be room for perfection. Even with specialization one should be able to listen to others, with patience, enthusiasm and eagerness. Specialized knowledge should be used judiciously at the right place and time in an effective manner.

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Positive Attitude in Life

Your positive mental attitude, outlook, approach and words have a tremendous influence not only over your own self but also over others with whom you come into contact. Your positive conduct and confidence automatically infuse confidence in the other person. It compels him to take notice of you. Psychologically, all of us like things that are positive, favorable, promising and hopeful. You will never like to have dealings with a person who is gloomy, pessimistic and afraid. People react and respond positively to a positive approach and negatively to a negative one. Therefore, when we make human contacts we must do so with a positive emotional attitude, absolutely confident of the positive outcome of the contact or meeting. This is true whether we are trying to make a sale, or succeed at an interview, or to obtain business collaboration, or canvass a vote, or secure an industrial license, or enrolls a member or merely partake in worthwhile friendly conversation. To take success for granted, to think, speak and act success is to create the positive and favorable first impression. People instantly like a positive minded person.

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Learn to Relax in Life

Make relaxation a habit - At odd moments during the day when opportunity occurs, flop down in a chair or on a bed or settee. Relax every muscle. Close your eyes. Pass your fingertips lightly over your forehead several times and let your face melt into a smile. Do this also when you go to bed. You ‘ll enjoy better sleep.
While working, conserve your energies. By forethought reduce unnecessary jaunts upstairs. Avoid standing if you can work equally well sitting down. Place tools and materials handy so as to reduce movement as much as possible. Such practices reduce strain and fatigue.
Do get into the habit of smiling readily. You can not be tense when you are smiling, and you look so much more attractive! You ‘ll know more serenity of mind when you smile more.

Eradicate Worry

It is worth stressing that worry is productive of nothing but furrowed brows, nervous breakdowns and gastric ulcers. It solves no problems. You ‘ll know little serenity if you allow yourself to become a worrier.

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