Week 3

What did you learn from this week’s readings and videos? 

I really enjoyed the video from Jim Ritchie this week. He shared about a formula for success that worked for his life, and he promised it could work for mine, too. Part of his formula comes from Elder David B. Haight that was told to Elder Ritchie when he was a young missionary and some comes from J. Paul Getty, a wealthy oil tycoon, who shared his tips for a successful life at his retirement. This is his formula for success:

1. Get up early.

2. Work hard.

3. Get your education.

4. Find your oil. (a product, idea or service that is unique to your talents & gifts)

5. Make your mark. (Be good a something!)

6. Prepare to serve and to give back.

I look forward to trying the formula and seeing it work for my life.

One that I need to really work on the getting up earlier.

In the book Launching Leaders it quotes Aristotle, “It is well to be up before day-break, for such a habit contributes to health, wealth, and wisdom.” And of course, we have all heard Benjamín Franklin’s well-known quote of “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise.”

In the book it says that research has proved that is some truth to support getting up early. Studies have shown that students that get up earlier have higher grade point averages than students that sleep in. It’s not so much just the GPA benefit but also the quiet time you have early in the morning. This quiet time can help you think more clearly and gives you time to connect your mind and heart like no other time in the day. Sometimes this time in the day is called the “magic hours”.

My goal this week will be to get up a little earlier.


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