The Greatest Secret In The World………

It really shouldn’t be classified as a secret because successful people constantly talk about it openly ….but nobody is listening! Including you.

Maybe you’ll pay attention, now.

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity… and you’ve got it made.

Read that again, burn it into your mind and never forgive it.

We live in a world of mediocrity… and mediocre individuals. You know it without taking my word for it think about last new car you bought and house lawfully was assembled by people who just did their job well enough to get by.  And how many things were unfinished in that new house you bought? Remember that jacket with the pockets still sewn together… and the magazine you bought with 16 pages missing.

Charles H. Brower, one of country’s most able and brilliant business executives, put his finger on it all when he  said “We in America are living in a high tide of the mediocre, the great era of the goof-off, the age of job half-done. The land from coast to coast has been enjoying a stampede away from responsibility. It is populated with laundrymen who won’t iron shirts. The waiters who won’t serve, with carpenters who will come around someday maybe, with executives whose minds are on the golf course, with teachers should demand a single salary schedule so that achievement cannot be rewarded more poor work punished, with students who takes cinch courses because the hard ones make them think, with spiritual delinquents of all kinds who have been  triumphantly determined to enjoy what was known until the present crisis as the new leisure’”.

You don’t have to move ahead to be a success! Just stand fast where you are, doing the best you can, and without you advancing one inch forward you’ll be ahead of the pack. Why?  Because the others will have retreated!  The struggle was too rough for them. They quit….. and ran…. and there you are because no one’s remaining. Mr. Success.

For, as Mr. Brower concluded, “I am a man of great faith. Here and thee you see bright minds
who are not interested in clock watching and goofing of. And I would like to say to them, do not
be discouraged when you find yourself afloat in a sea of mediocrity. Do not be downhearted when
the tides of foolishness are running high. It is the earnest and devoted few who can turn that tide.”

From Og Mandino’s The Greatest Secret in the World