What is Life Paying You?

Here is one of the most impactful poems I have ever read. It comes from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It has influenced me for decades. Life has a lot to offer if you have the audacity to claim it.

I bargained with Life for a penny
And Life would pay no more.
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.

For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.