Are you making a living, making a life, or making a difference?
Posted on April 1, 2007 | 4 comments | Filed in UncategorizedI attended a really cool personal development seminar yesterday. It got me thinking about…
Are you making a living, making a life, or making a difference?
- Making a living is about doing something for the money
- Making a life is about creating a business that
supports the lifestyle you want to live
- Making a difference is about giving your best
to others in service and getting back tenfold
I have seen myself move thru the process and finally feel like I am at a place where I am making a difference. The joy and satisfaction in that is tremendous.
What purpose is your home business serving for you?
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[...] Kristie T asked an interesting question the other day: Are you making a living, making a life, or making a difference? [...]
Good question. In the beginning, I think I was focused on making a living first, then a life, and then a difference… if things were working out to the point where I could even think about a bigger picture than my bills.
But now, I believe I’m finding that if I put my focus on making a difference, then a life, and then a living, the living-needs get met better than when the focus was the other way around.
We are drawn to passion, like moths to a flame. It only stands to reason that if we can become inspired in that way, we’ll inspire others; and then we’ll all be successful.
[...] And yet, when I asked myself, “Why?”, the reasons always came down to my desires to make the world a better place. I realized that in order to do that on the scale I wanted to, in the way I wanted to, I would have to change just about everything about my business. And so, I did. [...]
[...] that in order to do that on the scale I wanted to, in the way I wanted to, I would have to change just about everything about my business. And so, I [...]