The True Benchmark for Success

If you strip away money, power, notoriety (all of which are easy to get and easy to lose) what remains as your benchmark to measuring personal success? I am not sure I know the answer but have thought at great length about this question.

In a yoga class recently, my teacher Katie (whose spirit and wisdom I greatly admire) said something that really stuck with me:

"Your attitude is what you have to give back to the world."

The power to inspire and energize the world around us is no small talent. It will be a life's work remembering this objective and working toward its goal.

Comments

[Matthew Cornell]

Good question.

o Supporting attitudeo Positive attention (esp. listening with out ego).

I think it was in Victor Frankl's book: Character is the only thing you can't take away from a person. Leads to: What's the essence?

Hmmm.