The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-10-28
WHY he is MORE SUCCESSFUL
THAN YOU ARE.

When you see a person who is
getting ahead much faster than you
are. why do you try to justify your
slower pace by all sorts of excuses,
such as that the other fellow is
lucky" that he has probably had some
body to help him, that he happened to
be in more advantageous position?
Do not hypnotic yourself by such
silly excuses. Everybody will laugh
at you for making them, and say to
themselves: There is no doubt that
there is a good reason for his lack OF
advancement" Why not get right
down to business and look for the real
cause?
Investigation will perhaps show that
the other fellow is little more alert
for opportunities, that he is not so
afraid of taking pains, that he does
not think quite as much about having
a good time and of taking his ease as
you do; that he is more willing to
sacrifice his comfort for business.
He probably retires little earlier
at night; he gets up a little earlier in
the morning, is particular about being
at work on time; puts more conscience
into his work; does not blunder or
CAD about and talk as much as you do.
He may be more careful not to make
slurring remarks about members of
the firm.
In other words, just get right down
and analyze yourself, and you will
probably find a lot of weak points in
your service which you could improve.
| know young man who seems to
have considerable ambition, but is
much distressed because other young
men in the same firm with him are
getting along much faster than he is.
| In questioning him, found that
several of those who work with him
are at the Office ahead of time, while
he is usually late; that they frequent
ly work in the evening, especially dur
ing the busy season, while he almost
invariably leaves when the gong
sounds, and, if possible, little be-
fore. One of the young men he envies
often carries work home at night,
and even gives his occasional holidays
to his employers business. Yet this
young man thinks his companions are
favored. He calls them 'lucky" him
self "unlucky."
The levelheaded employer is al
ways looking for ear-marks of adj
vancement material in his employees,
for the stuff that wins, for indications
of genius or marked ability, and there
is no mistaking them.
When he sees a person who Is
exacting to the minute regarding his
work, who is afraid to come little
ahead of time in the morning, or to
stay little after closing hours II the
work requires it, who acts as though
he were afraid he would give his en-
ployer the equivalent of little more
. than he finds in his pay envelope,
there is small encouragement for that
persons advancement.
The idea Of those who are made Of
winning material is to get on, and
they know that the way to do this is
to make themselves so invaluable to
their employer that he cannot get
along without them.
There is nothing which pleases an
employer SO much as to feel that an
empIoye is trying in every possible
i way to advance his interests, studying
ways and means to tighten his burden,
! that, in short, he is just as much con-
cerned about the business as though
it were his own.
~xyhn %hir1T fhof %h{Q
is foolish and that it is not right to do
what they are not paid for may get
out of little extra work, but they do
not get on; for, no employer wants to
, risk his interests in the hands OF a
person who is SO very exacting about
; the amount of work he does; who
figures so closely to give just the
equivalent of what he finds in his
salary envelope, and no more.
The young men who advance rapid
ly usually do so because of the gen
crosby of their service, because there
is no stinting in it, no thought OF
doing as little as possible and getting
as much as possible for it.
!. 1t is the overplus of service, the
: little extra things which the employe
is not only willing but eager to do in
!, order to help his employer, the little
, extra interest in his employers wei
fare which make all the difference be.
tween the young man who remains
in the same position year in and
year out and the one who advances
to the top.
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