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One way to do this is to extend your hand to help others instead of tripping them up.
I know these six rules work because I've seen them applied time and time again with successful results.
Ask your husband to try it out: These rules are guaranteed to improve anyone's "enthusiasm quotient." Here are the six rules:
1. Learn to the best of your ability each specific job you have and how it relates to the company as a whole.
Many people feel like they are just a cog in a large, impersonal machine because they have no idea of the importance of their particular job. At the same time, it was also because he didn't want to learn anything other than the work he was asked to do every day.
Remember this old story?
Two men working together were asked what they were doing. One of them replied, "I am laying bricks." The other replied, "I am building a cathedral."
Learning about a job or product can increase enthusiasm. The famous journalist Tarbell once said that she once spent several weeks collecting information for an article of more than 500 words - although in fact she only used part of the information. She explained that the unused information would increase the strength she had preserved. Because she knows more than she needs to write the article, she is able to write with greater ease, confidence, and authority.
Benjamin Franklin knew how to use this technique as a boy. At that time, he was working in a smelly soap factory. Because he learned the entire manufacturing process to the best of his ability, he felt quite proud of his small contribution to the finished product.
When the factory trains salesmen, it must teach them the manufacturing details of the product, although this knowledge is rarely used when selling. However, a thorough understanding of one's own products enables salesmen to be more authoritative and enthusiastic when selling to customers, which also results in better sales.
The more we know about anything, the stronger our enthusiasm for it will be. So if your husband isn't enthusiastic about his job, it's time to find out why. It's possible that you don't know enough about your job—or don't understand your contribution to the overall program.
2. Set a goal and complete it patiently.
—The individual must fix his vision if he is determined to succeed. He must know what he is working for, and then he will pursue it like a bulldog chasing a cat. A person who knows his goals will not be discouraged by setbacks and failures.
Benjamin Franklin wrote: "Let every man identify his peculiar work and calling, and do it patiently, if he will succeed."
The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the one who should have heeded this advice. Most of the poems he left to posterity were unfinished. He spread his talents too thinly and wasted them. He lived in an unreal dream world. After his death, Charlie Lamb wrote to a friend: "College is dead. I heard that he left more than 40,000 articles on metaphysics and theology. Essays—none of them are finished!”
Discuss your husband's hopes for the future and help him clarify his goals and ambitions. Encourage him to try to accomplish clear goals rather than daydream about vague and unlikely success.
Three: Cheer yourself up every day.
Is this approach childish? Maybe. Many highly successful people have found this to be a great way to build enthusiasm. News analyst Carter Ben said that when he was young and ignorant, he worked as a salesman in France. He visited one house after another every day and said some words of encouragement to himself before setting off every day.
Magic master Howard Saustier often jumped up and down in his dressing room, shouting again and again: "I love my audience." Until his blood boiled; then he walked to the stage, Presenting an energetic and enjoyable performance.
Most of us live half awake and half asleep. Why don't you say to yourself every morning: "I love my job and I'm going to use it to the fullest of my abilities. I'm happy to be alive - I'm going to live one hundred percent today."
4. Train yourself to think in terms of "serving others."
Aristotle advocated “enlightened selfishness”—a good approach for anyone seeking progress.
A self-centered worker, with one eye on the clock and the other on his salary, is bound to be bored, lazy, and will not succeed.
Serving others creates a passion—as evidenced by the many able people who choose low-paying social service and missionary work rather than earning more money in self-centered careers.
Guerrilla tactics may succeed temporarily, but they will eventually fail. It would be better for everyone to lend a helping hand rather than put their feet out to trip us up.
5. Make enthusiastic friends, but there are some that you must avoid.
"What I need most," Emerson said, "is someone to make me do what I can do."
"Open my heart."
In other words, it is encouragement.
We can't control our husband's work environment—but we can try to cultivate friends and energy that will stimulate him to think and live more creatively.
If you want your husband to radiate zeal, let him live under the influence of friends who are alert, energetic and sober to life. There are such people in every group - make it your job to identify them and help your husband interact with them. Then watch for this contact to create a spark in him that leads to his ideal.
There is some counter-advice - valuable advice given by Patsy Whiting in "Five Principles of Selling". He said: "Avoid associating with people who are unhappy, who are unenthusiastic, who are People who occupy their feet and minds in the same daily routine.”
6. Force yourself to work enthusiastically, and you will become very enthusiastic.
Is this my claim? Oh, no. Professor William James taught this philosophy at Harvard University before I was born.
"If you want an emotion," James said, "you act as if you already have it, and pretending you have it will make you actually have it. Emotions. If you want to be happy, work with joy. If you want to be miserable, work with misery. If you want to be enthusiastic, work with enthusiasm.”
Frank Berg, author of "How I Go from Failure to Success in Sales," said that a person can change his life by applying this principle. Apparently he couldn't be wrong - it was his own experience.
(to be continued)
