Good home influence lays the foundation for career success. Almost everything depends on a good beginning. If you need to retrace your steps you will lose time, and also confidence. "Do it right the first time," is very good advice to follow consistently. Just ask efficiency experts.
You want to build a good reputation. You want your associates, acquaintances, audience, or market to have a good opinion of you. But you need to see to it that your good reputation is deserved because the world will find out sooner or later.
Sudden wealth makes instant reputation, as it does instant friends. But in most cases, adversity is the best test of character - and friendship.
The soldier who fights for his principles is a hero, but not necessarily a success. The motive for your goal determines how much effort you're going to put in to achieve it. Selfishness may prosper but it cannot become an enduring success as that based on a willingness to help others. Your purpose will strengthen you in times of trouble and the reason you rejoice on the day you triumph.
Some may ask "Why should I work my butt off if I only have myself to live for?" This may well be a common sentiment for one who does not have a wife, partner, mother, brother, sister, children, belief, or advocacy to struggle for. One who does not feel that the effort to build character is its own reward.
To build a home is one of the greatest motivations to succeed. Everyone who loves his mother, or reveres her memory knows this. They are indeed blessed, who continue to experience the influence of a good home.
Home is the first and most important influence of character. It is there that each one receives his best moral training, or his worst. It is there that one instills his principles that endure through life. Your home training includes your character formation. It is there where most of your habits are formed, where your interest is piqued, your intellect awakened, and your character is molded for good or bad. The impressions formed in a child's mind, becomes world opinion if the child finds success later in life.
It is the nature of things that home life is preparation for participation in society at large. From family life we advance to citizenship. Where love and responsibility pervades the home, we can expect healthy, happy, and capable citizens to develop, contributing to the general welfare of society.
A good home is the best of environments, not just in youth but in old age. There both enjoy a cheerful atmosphere, a sense of civic duty where patience, self-control, and service is nurtured in one and taught by the other. The home is where you learn forbearance for another's shortcomings because you feel the same when you display your own.
A lot depends on the home, for it is the foundation of society and good government. And it is a sad commentary on our times that so many distractions are there to neglect it.
As the home affects one's character because of the people who live there, it follows that the young person who leaves his home behind, would want to associate with people who remind him of fond memories.
Home influence lays the foundation for career success.
