The value of success is our ability to put it to good use for others.
There are many successful people we know all about. They live their lives very publicly and very extravagantly. Too much of our world today gets sucked into trying to emulate that lifestyle.
But perhaps there is an opportunity to learn from and be more intrigued by those whose success is quiet. The humbly successful people who rarely talk about their success or make a show of themselves. What do they do differently?
I would argue that the most successful people I know rarely discuss it, but always pay their success forward for the good of others.
Some of the greatest “teaching” and “learning” moments in my life have come from successful people who simply wanted to pay it forward by spending time with me. Often, they had many more urgent and important matters to attend to, yet they never made me feel like an inconvenience or a distraction.
While that example is simple, it tells us something. True success looks to breed more. It aims to make the world around a better place, so that more people can share in and benefit from success. It looks for ways to be useful, not just “wealthy”, “famous”, or “accomplished”. It looks to re-invest itself into making others better.
We could all use a frequent reset on what true success is, means, looks like, and should do. It’s a good reminder: true success seeks, first and foremost, to put itself to good use for others.
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