Another day. Another friend. Another quote.
From a passage called "A Memorandum to God*" from the book "The Greatest Miracle in the World."
*This reference is neither suggesting my affiliation with any religion, church or spiritual guide nor is it intended to infringe on your beliefs in any, way, shape or form. I believe in positivity no matter where it comes from. Period. And I was pleasantly surprised at how much I resonated with and took away from this passage.
My favorite section: Go another mile. In business, in life, in love, what would happen if you went another mile?
"The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I say the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
Don't think you are being cheated if you deliver more than the silver you receive. For there is a pendulum to all life and the sweat you deliver, if not rewarded today, will swing back tomorrow, tenfold. The mediocre never goes another mile, for why should he cheat himself, he thinks. But you are not mediocre. To go another mile is a privilege you must appropriate by your own initiative. You cannot, you must not avoid it. Neglect it, do only as little as the others, and the responsibility for your failure is yours alone.
You can no more render service without receiving just compensation than you can withhold the rendering of it without suffering the loss of reward. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, these cannot be separated. The effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, and the fruit is always in the seed.
Go another mile."
