Do you ever wish you knew why your grandparents or parents made some of the choices they did? Do you wonder about their lives and wish you had a record to look to or even share with your kids? Do you ever think about what the lives of your family members and friends will be like when you are gone and if you have left a mark there?
When you move through your life from a level of basic Survival, getting by, to the next level of Stability, that is a great accomplishment. Then when you take your life from a place of Stability on up to Success, you are doing an incredible job. The best thing that can come out of your Success is Significance, which is generally an outpouring of the overflow of your Success. Significance is the permanent reflection of your Success in someone else. What does that mean? It means you are taking your skills and knowledge to teach, train, and give to others to make their lives better. With your children, it can mean showing them how to budget well and save money or having a “family bank” to help them through life’s potential disasters. You can leave a wonderful legacy of teaching and sharing with others.
The important thing to remember is that your life has to be built up first. You have to pay attention to your own life and make sure it is stable so you can be successful first and then add significance. If you are giving and giving but lack stability, things in your life will end up toppling down around you, and then you are stuck with a big mess and unable to give at all. I was on a cruise ship a few years back, and one night the entertainment for the evening was a massive champagne tower that consisted of several layers of glasses that would be filled as the one from the top overflowed. The waiter climbed a ladder clutching the first bottle of champagne as the boat rocked gently back and forth. When he reached the top, he carefully held out the bottle and leaned forward and then quickly jumped back, losing his balance and looking like he was going to knock the whole thing over. The whole audience gasped and then just as suddenly realized from the huge grin on his face that he was just kidding around. Now, thinking of that tower of glasses, picture Stability being at the top. Then Success is in the middle, and finally Significance is the big layer at the bottom. As you pour into the Stability, the overflow runs up and over into Success. As you continue pouring, it finally runs over into Significance, and you have a beautiful flowing tower (i.e. life) to show for it. But you can never pour into the bottom glasses and expect it to flow upwards into the Success or Stability levels. There are certain things that will just never work that way. So as you go through your day, try to remember to focus on the things in your life that you can balance and make stable first so that in the end you can have a wonderful positive impact on those around you.
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