Success Is a Guest of Honor Who Won't Crash an Unprepared House
When you wait for proof before you prepare, you have the order backward — and Elsie Lincoln Benedict spends a whole lesson telling you so. Her image in How to Get Anything You Want is a dinner. How often, she asks, do you hear of a guest of honor failing to show up to the reception thrown for them? We get there somehow, she says, when the preparations have been made for us personally. Success, she argues, behaves the same way. It is a guest of honor — and it flatly refuses to go where no preparations have been made. ...