By Zig Ziglar
“…TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE…” I have a concept that I’ve built my life and my business on, namely that you can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Sam Walton put it this way: “I quickly learned that when I enriched others, I also enriched myself.” Part of the Scout teaching is to do a good deed every day. Recently I had the opportunity to help a lady who was physically unable to lift her bag and put it in the overhead compartment on an airplane. She thanked me profusely and I laughingly said, “Well, it gave me a chance to do my good deed for the day, so I thank you.” That good deed for the day is right out of what I learned as a Boy Scout. From time to time I still hear it said by people around the country. It is a marvelous philosophy.
Here’s one of those intriguing facts of life: Other people can give you pleasure, but you will never be happy until you do things for other people. Scientifically speaking, to do so also floods the brain with serotonin, which is that “feel-good” neuro-transmitter which helps to energize us, so the practicality of the Scout Oath is significant. A Psychology Today study revealed that people who are active in the community doing things for people who can’t do for themselves are physiologically energized and are able to be more successful in their own careers.
Now, I’m certain that the typical thirteen-year-old saying the Scout Oath is unaware of all of these things, but that does not lessen the benefits that a Scout receives for doing that good deed every day. Needless to say, I’m excited about Scouting and hope you are, too, because if you will buy what Scouting teaches, then I will SEE YOU AT THE TOP!
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