MAKE A DIFFERENCE

A consultant who travelled to over 100 different countries in his regular work kept a private survey of questions he asked in his spare time. One of the questions was,
“What is the most important thing in your life?”
The answer he received over and over was,
“I want my life to count.”
Another question he asked was, “What is your greatest fear?”. Surprisingly, very few said things like death, cancer or public humiliation.
Instead, most confided a fear that their lives would be meaningless – that they would die with their potential untapped.
When pressed, most of us feel there’s a reason we were put on Earth at this place and time.
We have a longing to fullil that destiny, even if we don’t know what it is.
Getting excited about our future means going beyond survival, going beyond success and looking for significance; looking for ways to fullil a purpose greater than ourselves.
People who have fallen in love with their future have usually discovered this approach. And they apply it to their career as well as their personal life. They try to look 5,10, 30 years into the future and ask themselves,
“Is what I’m doing benefiting mankind?”
“Will it continue to benefit others in the future?”
If not, they do not soul searching for a career of a personal change. If so, they throw themselves their work with a new vision for making a difference.
“We each have a song within us that only we can sing.” Michael Jones.