5.18-Want to be a success at work? Be early. Work hard. Be fun. Stay late when needed. Do your job.

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Principles 17-

I read this journal entry from my mom when she was 54 years old, 5.5.1967. “I stood on my feet 12 hours without sitting down one time.”  My mother was working like this at that age and made $1.40/hour.  As a director of the Wishard family resources I will remind myself and others.

Do not expect to live within your means unless you are working from 50 to 80hours per week.

We want to work and go to school because this allows us to build up other people.  We go to work to treat people with love and kindness and encouragement and to help them have a good day.  We do not want to take advantage of people at work or be a burden to the people at work.  We do not want to abuse them or bully them.  We don’t want to misuse good things so that they become bad things makes us bad workers. We are good workers.  We arrive on time or early and stay late if needed.  My dad gave a great work principle.  “If you don’t ever do anything you don’t get paid for you won’t ever get paid for anything except just what you do.”

Matthew 24.

⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶ It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. ⁴⁷ Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ ⁴⁹ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. ⁵⁰ The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. ⁵¹ He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Ephesians6

⁹ And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him. 

Colossians 4.

4 Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

Further Instructions

² Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. ³ And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. ⁴ Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. ⁵ Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. ⁶ Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.