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    Most Likely To Succeed: The Graduate's Guide to True Success in Work and in Life
    Most Likely To Succeed: The Graduate's Guide to True Success in Work and in Life
    Most Likely To Succeed: The Graduate's Guide to True Success in Work and in Life
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    Most Likely To Succeed: The Graduate's Guide to True Success in Work and in Life

    By Mark Rutland

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    Just in time for the graduation season, Mark Rutland provides graduates with nine timeless keys to prosperity and success in life. Rutland takes a fresh look at essential characteristics such as courage, loyalty, diligence, honesty, reverence, and gratitude, and reveals why each of these qualities is so necessary in today's postmodern era. Rutland skillfully guides today's graduate to begin developing these characteristics that lead to succss now and throughout life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharisma House
    Release dateSep 20, 2012
    ISBN9781599799018
    Most Likely To Succeed: The Graduate's Guide to True Success in Work and in Life

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      Most Likely To Succeed - Mark Rutland

      MOST LIKELY

      to SUCCEED

      MARK RUTLAND

      WITH TRAVIS RUTLAND

      MOST CHARISMA HOUSE BOOK GROUP products are available at special quantity discounts for bulk purchase for sales promotions, premiums, fundraising, and educational needs. For details, write Charisma House Book Group, 600 Rinehart Road, Lake Mary, Florida 32746, or telephone (407) 333-0600.

      MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED

      by Mark Rutland with Travis Rutland

      Published by Charisma House

      Charisma Media/Charisma House Book Group

      600 Rinehart Road

      Lake Mary, Florida 32746

      www.charismahouse.com

      This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.

      Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission.

      Scripture quotations marked ASV are from the American Standard Version of the Bible. Public domain.

      Scripture quotations marked NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission.

      Cover Designer: studiogearbox.com

      Executive Design Director: Bill Johnson

      Copyright © 2008 by Mark Rutland

      All rights reserved

      Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

      Rutland, Mark.

      Most likely to succeed / Mark Rutland with Travis Rutland.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-1-59979-251-4

      1. Success--Religious aspects--Christianity. 2. High school graduates. 3. College graduates. I. Rutland, Travis. II. Title.

      BV4598.3.R88 2008

      248.4--dc22

      2007037937

      E-book ISBN: 978-1-59979-901-8

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      IWISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE WITH GRATITUDE THE vital contribution of my son, Travis Rutland. Without his capable and creative editorial work this book would not have been possible. It is humbling to find yourself impressed by your children, yet I am awestruck by all my children. In this work, as in all he undertakes, Travis was insightful, diligent, detail oriented, and able to keep the vision of the work clear. This is my son, my only son, in whom I am well pleased.

      CONTENTS

      I Character—the Keys of Success

      II Courage—the Key to the Keys of Success

      III Loyalty—Success in Relationships

      IV Diligence—Success in Work

      V Modesty—Success and Simplicity

      VI Frugality—Success and Prosperity

      VII Honesty—Success and Self-Preservation

      VIII Meekness—Success and Power

      IX Reverence—Success and Value

      X Gratitude—Success and Humility

      Notes

      I

      CHARACTER—

      THE KEY OF SUCCESS

      A man’s character is his fate.

      —HERACLITUS

      FIND AN OLD YEARBOOK, YOUR PARENTS’ perhaps. Don’t the clothes look funny? How about the hairdos? They look quaint and old-timey to you, but they were cool back then, way cool.

      What is hard to imagine is that someday your kids, or wilder still, your grandkids, will giggle their way through your yearbook. They will shriek in laughter at your funny clothes and howl at your weird hair.

      Did you wear that?

      Tell me you didn’t really go out of the house like that!

      You think they won’t. You are thinking, My style will never go out of style. But I am here to tell you that all the things that are so now, fifty years from now will be so then that your grandchildren will find them hysterical.

      Now turn back to that same old yearbook of your parents. Find the Senior Superlatives or whatever they call the page with all those Bests and Mosts.

      THERE ARE SOME KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL LIVING THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU, WHOEVER YOU ARE, IF YOU JUST KNOW WHERE TO FIND THEM.

      Best Looking. Best looking? Are they to you?

      Class Clown. Can you see it? Do they look funny to you?

      Most Athletic. Could they even make the teams at your school?

      Now find Most Likely to Succeed.

      Look at them. Look deeply. Look into their hopeful eyes. Study their eager, young faces. What made their classmates select them? Their grades? Maybe. Popularity? That’s more likely.

      The real question is, did they succeed? Did they really succeed? Did they make lots of money only to ruin their lives? Did they find only empty, shattered relationships?

      Or were they successful in all of life? Maybe they succeeded in business or politics or science; maybe they even made a fortune or became leaders in their field while living healthy, balanced lives that enriched others as well as themselves.

      What made the difference? What makes a person Most Likely to Succeed?

      Of course, there are many variables that determine certain outcomes. Talents, skills, and education all play a part in some parts of life.

      Yet there are some keys to successful living that are available to you, whoever you are, if you just know where to find them. OK, there may be people in your graduating class with a higher IQ, for whatever that is worth. Some may get the opportunity to attend a more famous college. But those things have little to do with true success. When you come to the end of your life and career, when you sit down with your grandkids for a good chuckle at the old yearbook, how will you look back on your life? You can look back on a life to be proud of. Here are nine keys to make you likely to succeed. I offer them to you because you were not born to be a failure. You were born for success. Take these nine keys in your hand and go for it. There is a reason you were born you. Use these keys. Unlock all the doors you come to. Success awaits you. Congratulations; you are about to become Most Likely to Succeed.

      II

      COURAGE—THE KEY TO

      THE KEYS OF SUCCESS

      Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

      —CLARA BOOTH LUCE

      The Bradley armored vehicle inched its way onto the bridge. Three soldiers, Americans, young and with everything to live for, crouched low as they followed, their eyes on the old woman. Bullets from the Iraqi guns on the far side of the river bounced off the sides of the vehicle and the steel girders of the bridge. The soldiers kept coming, risking their lives with every step, braving the enemy guns, all for the life of the elderly Iraqi woman huddled in the gun smoke.

      The officer in charge tossed a smoke grenade, and three Americans ran forward to pull the woman to safety. Captain Chris Carter, at the ripe old age of thirty-one, was the company commander. He ordered his men to retreat, carrying the woman, while he gave covering fire with an M-16.

      On March 31, 2003, Captain Chris Carter and his men acted courageously on a bridge somewhere south of Baghdad. They were not merely brave but courageous, risking their lives for a defenseless woman in danger from the bullets of her

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