A TALK ON GETTING AHEAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2093, 21 February 1920, Page 1

A TALK ON GETTING AHEAD.

Here are a few rules for getting ahead: — In dealing .with people, always put-yourself in their place. Remember, when you waste tim<j It's your opportunity'you are wasting. Watch habits and companions—they make or break many a man.

Plan your work, then work your 1 ilaii. Spend shine time each day thinking, “How can I do my work better and quicker?” Fix a goal; then work towards it unceasingly. Don’t be afraid to do things you weren’t hired to do. It’s the men who do more than they were hired to do that win success. When you get good ideas 'put them into effect before you forget them. Have a place for every tiling, and keep everything in its place. Learn the things the man needs to know to fill (he job higher up. Determine to succeed. You can do anything you want to if you want to do it enough. Don’t think because a thing ha j “always been done’’ one way that that way is necessarily best. Be alert to make improvements. Beinember always, every minute you spend making yourself more valuable to your employer makes vou more valuable to yourself.