Sharing my Way to a New Life

What is your next complaint? Opportunity never seeks thee?

Take counsel and it shall come to pass, for now I give you the fourth secret to success. Many centuries ago, this secret was given to your ancestors from a mountaintop. Some listened and practiced the secret and their lives were filled with the fruit of happiness, accomplishment, gold, and peace of mind. Some did not listen and sought magic means, devious routes, or waited for the devil luck to deliver them to the riches of life. They waited in vain… just as you may have waited, and they wept, as you wept, blaming their lack of fortune on God’s will.

The secret is simple. It doesn’t matter who you are, young or old, male or female, or what color you may be. Anyone can use the secrets to their advantage; for all the rules and speeches and scriptures of success and how to attain it, only one method has never failed… whomsoever shall compel ye to go with him one mile…go with him two.

This is the fourth secret. The secret that will produce riches and acclaim beyond your dreams. Go another mile!

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore, I say the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

Do not feel that you are being cheated if you deliver more then the silver you receive. For there is a pendulum to all life and the sweat you deliver, if not rewarded today, will swing back tomorrow, tenfold. The mediocre never goes another mile, for why should they cheat themselves, they think. But you are not mediocre. To go another mile is a privilege you must appropriate by your own initiative. You cannot and you must not avoid it. Neglect it, do only as little as the others, and the responsibility for your failure is yours alone.

You can no more render service without receiving just compensation than you can withhold the rendering of it without suffering the loss of reward. Cause and effect cannot be separated.

Go another mile.

Do not concern yourself should you serve an ungrateful master. Serve them more. Instead of them, let it be the Lord who is in your debt, for then you will know that every minute, every stroke of extra service will be repaid. And worry not, should your reward not come soon. For the longer payment is withheld, the better for you. For compound interest on compound interest is this secrets greatest benefit. You cannot command success; you can only deserve it.