“Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value” – Albert Einstein

 

We all live for success. If we did not have success or the will to succeed in life, things will be pretty boring. We all define success in diffrent ways. Some people measure their success in monetary value. It is about the car you drive and the house you live in that determines to if they are successful. For others it is about how fast they can reach their goals that makes them successful.

No matter how we define success it keeps us going. I feel good if I achieve my goals and reach my dreams. It is a wonderful feeling when I drive past people and they look at my car or when they make a remark about the lifestyle I am living. It is a wonderful feeling.

There is no feeling like worthlessness. When we fail we feel like we are nothing. We do not tell people that we didn’t reach our goals or that we could not cling that big business deal that we boasted about awhile ago.

To be successful is not wrong at all but there is something greater than success. The fact that we can all be significant. The difference between success and significance is the focus. 

It took me a long time to realise that there is more to life than just being successful and making a lot of money. I had the oppertunity as a young person to be very successful, I made good money in my job, travelled the world, but I was not happy. My sole purpose was about me. Years later when I started teaching , I realised that there was more to life than just success.

Teaching is not always about just giving children the foundation and the knowledge that they will need for the future. It is also being there for them as an advisor and sometimes even be the parent. Being in this position I realised that there is nothing in life more satisfactory than knowing that you could do something for someone else that meant something.

The best part is that it does not matter if they don’t say thank you for what you have done because their reaction is already the greatest reward. 

Being significant is not about me.  My focus moves me to what I can then do for others rather than what is in it for me, and once you realise this you will become what Einstein said – not a man of sucess but a man that lives for others.

On facebook they had a quizz recently asking how do you want to be remembered………… I want to be remembered as someone who made a difference.