Million Dollar Habits – Page 308
company in the presence of other people. In
addition, you purchase and use the
products and services of your company, and recommend them proudly to others. It
is amazing how many people work for one company but use the products and
services of a competitor. They are then amazed to find that they are seldom if ever
promoted to positions of higher responsibility. Their disloyalty disqualifies them
from any kind of advancement.
It is essential that you be completely loyal to your spouse and to your children.
When
I was growing up, my parents, as a result of their own difficult upbringings,
would turn on their children,
including myself, at the slightest complaint or
criticism from a neighbor or a teacher. No matter what was said about us by others,
our parents would always take the side of the other person and assume that we
were guilty before hearing our explanation of what had happened.
Learn From Experience
This young experience taught me something that has been priceless in my own
personal life. From the birth of my first child, I have devoted myself to practicing
100% unconditional
loyalty to my children, no matter what mistakes they made or
what trouble they got into (and all children get into things when they are growing
up).
Probably in reaction to my childhood, I have been strongly
loyal to my friends and
business associates throughout my life as well. Once I have decided that a person is
my friend or colleague, I will stand by them almost indefinitely. I will praise them
to others and defend them if they are attacked. I will
take any challenge to their
