Tuesday January 7, 2014 #591
“In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.”
~A.A. Milne
As humans we tend to judge our worth (and we tend to judge others) on various forms of scorekeeping: wealth, position, title, address, physical appearance, etc. However, at some point we all find that the only true measure of our worth is what we give and the good we do for others. Unfortunately, many don’t have this realization until their death bed or some tragedy or another. Why wait for this realization to be forced upon you? Rather, be a more intentional and positive force of good for your family, community and workplace. Measure the success of each day not on what you’ve accomplished for yourself, but rather what you have accomplished for or given to others.
Perhaps counter-intuitively, focusing on others in fact delivers more intangible and tangible personal worth for you than if you focused merely on yourself.