There were times in Benjamin Franklin's life where he made mistakes and you wonder how he became so popular. For one he is acknowledging his mistakes, two he was a very hard worker, three he formed a plan for the improvement of his life. He made goals and he doesn't give us the specifics. One of the organizations he created was a club for the mutual improvement. It lasted 40 years and there were rules. This opportunity thru this club to discuss ideas learn how to communicate to each other various contending points of doctrine or politics without breaking the group up must have been somewhat difficult but, I guess they adhered to their rules. Ben worked very hard to have his own press and when he was almost going to default on a loan he had friends offer to help him if he would split up with his no good for nothing partner. He refused but instead went to him and said he would give him the business. But, the partner said he was not very good at printing and wanted to go back to farming so he let Ben buy him out and they ended their partnership on good terms.
I wish we could have done the same with our old partnership ended on good terms. It would have saved us years of turmoil and heartache. When Ben was first setting up his business he would let people see him working in the night and then again in the morning when no one else was up. Showing how hard he worked brought him more business. There was a time when he let someone he thought would work for him in on the knowledge that he planned on starting a newspaper. That person told his competition and they started a newspaper. But, Ben put an anonymous article in the other paper against this idea and after a short time he was able to buy the newspaper from the other person. So he turned it around and was persistent in his ideas that did make him money.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Qualities of Success
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