However lowly your position may be,

No matter how ragged your situation is, I will not despise you because of that. When you start to try climbing the first level of the ladder, you may temporarily feel powerless. However, when you arrive, you can set the next step as a goal, then the third step, and climb up step by step.

I have a very young friend whose ideal is to be an excellent employee. Although his first job was organizing files, from the very beginning, he devoted himself entirely to his work. Soon, he became the best file organizer in the office's history. When he excelled at one task, the company gave him more important tasks. He continued to perform consistently, and then a higher position awaited him. He conscientiously fulfilled his duties with palm reading for women in mind, and he had two ideals: the current ideal and the future ideal. He returned to the unfamiliar land where he had stepped three years ago. While focusing on his current responsibilities and completing them down-to-earth, he looked forward to the future with great anticipation. He always remembered one point: if today's responsibilities are not fulfilled, tomorrow's ideal will have no foundation, and all beautiful things will just be castles in the air. His specific ideals also change with the times, but before he has a firm foothold, he will never rashly take the next step. He can follow others' successful experiences and avoid the wrong paths of failure, unlike many people who fail miserably due to their lack of ideals, disregard for reality, and neglect of the future.

Excerpt from "90 Laws of Happiness: It's Late If You Know Them at 25"