If you’re anything like me, you need many reminders to stay the course, or even redirect you back to it when you’ve veered off. But remember, this thing called life is definitely more of a marathon than a sprint. It comes up with some stuff that I don’t necessarily know what to do with. I’ve said it before, my brain is kind of an asshole sometimes. That’s All Well And Good, But It’s Kind Of Lofty… #HENRY FORD NAPOLEON HILL NEVER MET HOW TO#READ NEXT: Nomad Fuel: Books for Inspiration, Motivation, & Generally Slaying it at Adultingīook Review: The Alchemist, By Paulo CoelhoĪdulting 101: How To Be A Better Human In 4 (Not So) Simple steps If the watchwords of the future are truly to be “Human Happiness & Contentment”, we must look inward for balance & fulfillment instead of outward for comparison & approval. We’ve started to confuse what we see with what we want, and sometimes what we want to be. The race to keep up with the Joneses and “the Dream”, combined with an addiction to the digital screen, is taking the soul out of us. With Napoleon Hill’s words in mind, I offer an updated manifesto for work-life balance. Let me attempt to wax poetic some new flavor in your eyes. Especially having grown up or through and viewed all sides of the work “collar” over the years. But when I took away the inferences to the exact means with which people got shit done, an underlying message rang resoundingly in my brain. Yes, we’ve obviously added the computer age and more mechanized manufacturing aspects to it. We still live in something of a “machine age”, with “cold machinery” and many parallels between the times Hill referenced. Nor can I properly formulate a comparison between the actual work-life balance of people between the two times.īut this isn’t about those specifics, necessarily, it’s about the explicit correlation and validity of words written nearly 100 years ago when held up against our lives today. I’m not even smert enough to competently compare the roaring 20s, the decade that saw the Ford Model T’s emergence, with today. Seeing Into The Future: Was Napoleon Hill Clairvoyant? Recently, as I was again listening to “Think And Grow Rich,” the timeless self-improvement book by Napoleon Hill, his actual written quote stopped me in my tracks. (Actually, if you’ve ever read into Hill’s, umm, interesting life, it’s oddly appropriate.) I’ve slightly updated the original to better fit into our current narrative. Yeah, what you just read is kind of a bastardized appropriation that I’ve concocted. The watchwords of the future will be “Human Happiness & Contentment.” And when this balance between work and life is finally realized, the “production” will take care of itself more efficiently than it ever did.” -NOT Napoleon Hill They were forced to do so by employees who bargained at the expense of all concerned to get and consume…and not give. “This insurgent, all-encompassing digital age in which we live in, has taken the soul out of man. Its leaders have driven men as if they were the pieces of cold hardware on which they work and watch. That OG Napoleon Hill Had Wicked Insights About Work-Life Balance.
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