Photo Credit: Right Outsourcing Partner for Your Business! Flickr via Compfight cc Business measures success based on a Profit and Loss Statement.
Personal success is often measured by wealth, or who has the most and best "stuff".
But these measures can be smoke and mirrors and are at best temporary. A company can lay off half the staff and quickly reduce salary expense and increase profit; but is that a change that is good for it's ongoing stability and profitability....maybe...maybe not. A man can be financially wealthy....and lose his family while he's at it. An individual can buy a lot of nice "stuff"...and have a ton of debt. All of these measurement methods are one stock market crash or one hurricane away from meaning nothing. They have no substance.
There is a new movement in some companies now to tie compensation to corporate culture. Why? Because they have begun to realize that there is more to measuring success than the short-sighted numbers methodology.
How then to measure true personal success? C-H-A-R-A-C-T-E-R. Your character is the only thing that you truly have control of. It is the best benchmark for personal success.
Jesus Christ was a man of character. There was no hype or phoniness to his life. He was, and is, the authentic God-Man. That is why millions and millions follow Him and His teachings. Let this be a week we demonstrate the character of Christ in our lives.
"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike." ~ Theodore Roosevelt.
You are God's children whom he loves, so try to be like him.
~ Ephesians 5:1
Building Character Together,
Personal success is often measured by wealth, or who has the most and best "stuff".
But these measures can be smoke and mirrors and are at best temporary. A company can lay off half the staff and quickly reduce salary expense and increase profit; but is that a change that is good for it's ongoing stability and profitability....maybe...maybe not. A man can be financially wealthy....and lose his family while he's at it. An individual can buy a lot of nice "stuff"...and have a ton of debt. All of these measurement methods are one stock market crash or one hurricane away from meaning nothing. They have no substance.
There is a new movement in some companies now to tie compensation to corporate culture. Why? Because they have begun to realize that there is more to measuring success than the short-sighted numbers methodology.
How then to measure true personal success? C-H-A-R-A-C-T-E-R. Your character is the only thing that you truly have control of. It is the best benchmark for personal success.
Jesus Christ was a man of character. There was no hype or phoniness to his life. He was, and is, the authentic God-Man. That is why millions and millions follow Him and His teachings. Let this be a week we demonstrate the character of Christ in our lives.
"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike." ~ Theodore Roosevelt.
You are God's children whom he loves, so try to be like him.
~ Ephesians 5:1
Building Character Together,
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