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Hi, this is Stephanie Maas and today I want to share what I thought was a really neat feedback from a speaker I heard at a conference and they were giving their foundation of success and encouraged us to adopt it as our foundation as well.

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It was very simple, just three little things.

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Number one, work hard.

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Sounds silly, but for them, working hard wasn't just a matter of how many hours you put into each day, but what you actually put into those hours.

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I kind of heard it as work hard, but also work smart.

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Second thing they talked about was being teachable.

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You're never too old to learn how to do something new, something better.

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Every single day we see it, it's remarkable.

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What's happening, what's being created, what's being become better.

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So you got to stay teachable.

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And the third thing, and this was my favorite was you got to have the right attitude, specifically, you got to have an attitude of gratitude.

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If you do, you will always have more than you need.

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If you don't have an attitude of gratitude, you'll never have enough.

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I thought that was kind of cool, but then also what is the fundamental success of business?

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People.

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And it just got me thinking about how we treat people in the midst of business.

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Let's face it.

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We are all business people.

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We have to make business decisions every single day, but let me encourage you in the midst of all that business to remember people are the foundation.

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You need to treat them well, treat them right, and remember the golden rule.