Friendly Cooperation Beats Competition

Morning Mindset Cafe is about sharing a success principle or quote and what it looks like in real life. Drink your coffee or tea, listen to the short episode, then think on it a bit and look for ways that you can put it to use in your life. Join the GROW Alliance Facebook group to meet others and share your thoughts about each episode. https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGROWAlliance/ Today's mindset thought for the day Friendly cooperation is never any part of the Devil’s work. He is working on the other side. The most noble human relationships are those that have been formed in a spirit of cooperation and harmony. Cooperation, in many ways, is the physical manifestation of your care and concern for your fellow man. When you work with others in a spirit of friendly cooperation, you are conducting yourself according to the founding principles of most religions and all successful societies. Everyone occasionally feels pangs of jealousy or envy, usually accompanied by the urge to cause problems or difficulty for those we dislike. Truly successful people have learned to restrain such urges. They know that if they concentrate upon their own objectives and help others along the way, they will eventually reach their goals. It isn’t easy to always be a friendly, cooperative person, but, in the end, you will find that it is worth the effort. ~ Napoleon Hill -------------------------------- What does friendly cooperation look like? Join me and others on Firetalk on Mondays at 12 pm ET and you will see it in action. Mutual respect. Respect for the audience. Respect for the student. Respect for the customer. You can hear it in the voices, see it as answers flow when a question is posed. Cooperation is care and concern...in action. I really like that Hill fully acknowledges that it's not always easy to be friendly and cooperative. It isn't for me. Envy and jealousy are truly my worst enemies and will show themselves at the most inopportune times! Thank goodness I have the discipline and ability to suppress them for the moment. Then, when I acknowledge what's going on within myself, I will often focus my attention on own goals, my own objectives so that I don't magnify these emotions by giving them too much attention. I know that when I want to be rid of an emotion, the best way to do so is to replace it with another - and the best way to do that is by changing my thinking, which changes my actions, which then changes my emotions.