Success vs. Significance
Russ Hedge
Inspirational Speaker - #1 International Best Selling Author - Your Marketing Coach - Livestream Producer - Business Consultant - Inspiration Specialist
Before us is an Amazing Life...and we all strive for something! Most strive for success measured by accomplishment and things! A new job, bigger house, a better car, more stuff… but is this really success? Does this really fulfill the need we have in our life?
John Maxwell, best selling author, coach, and speaker puts it best, “Success is mainly about myself… Significance is mainly about others! I’ve known many unfulfilled successful people, but everyone I know living a life of significance is fulfilled!”
This is really what it comes down to, adding value to others and helping people gives you significance, which in the end will make you truly successful. But like everything else in this life, it is a Journey!
John gives four steps for your Journey to Significance:
- You have to Want to Make a Difference
- You have to Do Something that Makes a Difference
- You have to Do it with People that Want to Make a Difference
- And, Do it at a Time When it Makes a Difference
It starts with making your Life Count! Every moment of every day you have to be intentional about what you are doing.
Find your Purpose and live it! If you are not living out your real Passion and Purpose, you will never achieve all that God has created you for!
Be part of a Team! You can do good things by yourself, but you can do great things with others! When we work together we can capitalize on each others strengths and can hold each other accountable!
Act Now! All we really have is now! It is important to learn from your past and plan for your future, but Now is the time to Act! You have to Do it Now! Always looking behind or ahead will just give you a neck ache!
So, get out there and Live a Life of Significance! Add Value to others by Giving and Helping and Doing! And… Do it Now!!
*Information used from "The Power of Five" by John C. Maxwell