No One can become rich without enriching the lives of others.

Earlier this week I posted an article written by Napoleon Hill titled “No Drifts into Success”. The main point of the article is that in order for anyone to become a success in life they must first determine what it is that they want out of life. They must have goals or a definite major purpose with an action plan.  

“The person who acts with a purpose and a plan attracts opportunities. How can life give you anything if you don’t know what you want yourself? How can others help you to succeed if you haven’t decided how to get there yourself? Only with definiteness of purpose will you be able to overcome the defeats and adversities that will stand in your way.

One of America’s earliest and most successful franchisers was Lee Maranz, a man who knew what he wanted and how to get it. A mechanical engineer, Maranz invented an automatic ice cream freezer that made soft ice cream. He envisioned a chain of ice cream stores from coast to coast and worked out a plan to make his dream become reality. 

He, like many others since, built his own success by helping others achieve theirs. He helped people set up ice cream shops by furnishing construction and design plans, a revolutionary idea at the time. He sold the ice cream machines at coat and made his profit from the sale of the ice cream mix. The result? That chain of stores Maranz was determined to create across the country.”  

How did mister Maranz achieve his goal? He did it through helping others achieve their goals. If you look into the lives of truly successful people you will notice a few common themes and one of them is that their success was realized because they to enrich the lives of other in some way. A perfect example of this is Bill Gates of Microsoft. His company and product have touched almost everybody around the global and has made the world a better place. I would challenge anybody to walk into office or home in the developed or developing world and if they can’t find a Microsoft office product. Even the people who hate the Gates and his company most likely use his products to bash his company. Do remember back when the government was suing Microsoft for violation of anti-trust laws? I bet that if you looked at work space of every single bureaucrat that was trying to destroy this company was using a computer with a Microsoft windows operating system load it. Bill Gates and others like him have revolutionized world and in my opinion have made it better and have become wildly successful because of the great service that they provided to the world. 

So, the point is if you want to become successful in your ventures then you need to help as many people as possible to become successful as well. This brings me to the main point of this post which is illustrated in the title. “No one can become rich without enriching the lives of others”. How do we that? We do that be being generous and providing service to as many people as possible. For example, the reason that I write this blog is my attempt to be of service to other people by providing with useful content and resources that will help them reach their financial goals in live. And with time and practice I might become a better writer and will be able to communicate my ideas more effectively; however the goal remains the same. To provide people with useful content and resources that will assist them in reaching their financial goals.  

Another example is my income goals. I have a goal of reaching a certain income level with my USANA home business. I will only be able to make that goal a reality is by introducing other people to USANA and then helping those people reach their income goals. That is why I talk about USANA in this blog and have provided a link to my USANA website. It is an effort to help others create an additional source of residual income. In fact all of the links on this page are to assist the beginning investor with resources to help improve their business ventures. And yes when you use the service I get rewarded as well. However these are all services that I use and I know that they can be helpful to you as well. 

I heard a quite by Earl Nightingale that said money or income was  a measuring stick of how much service that we are  providing to other people. So, If we want to be rich then we must increase our service and be like Bill Gates and other successful people a enrich the life of other and help them reach their goals.