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Today’s Featured Article
Dr Johnson on Success
 Samuel
Johnson grew up poor and handicapped in 18th Century England.
He was also brilliant and determined to be independent. Son of a bookseller,
Johnson was a voracious reader.
While attending Oxford,
young Samuel was mortified when a fellow student left a pair of shoes on the
doorstep one night after noticing the condition of his tattered shoes. He
dropped out of Oxford after a
year, unable to pay his tuition.
Johnson started a teaching career. Lacking a degree,
and with physical handicaps that made him a target for children’s
disrespect, he was not successful.
So he turned to writing where his career finally
blossomed. Johnson was a prolific writer, creating a dictionary, poems,
sermons, books, and political essays. Today he is the second most frequently
quoted person in the English-speaking world, second only to Shakespeare.
What does this story have to do with you?
At first glance, nothing.
Look a little deeper into his writings and
you’ll find this quote:
“To
be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”
Bam. Kind of hits you right between the eyes
doesn’t it?
At this time of year when we are rushing around with
holiday preparations, looking back at 2008 and beating ourselves up for all
the things we did or did not do, those twelve words put it all into
perspective.
 Ponder
this on a winter’s night:
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Are you happy at home?
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How can you mark and celebrate the richness of
your home life?
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In what ways does your business support your
home life or subtract from it?
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What are you going to do to enhance your
happiness at home?
As you wind up 2008 and look ahead to 2009, use these
words to create what really matters in your life and your business. Do the
same for your readers.
“To
be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”
Samuel Johnson
Raise your glass with me in celebration of all the
little things that make home feel like home.
Salute!
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Lynne
Klippel, a life-long bookworm, is passionate about helping people with a
message share it in a book. She focuses exclusively on non-fiction, Business
Building Books, designed to help coaches, speakers, small business owners,
and spiritual practitioners write books that get them more clients, media
attention, and additional income.