Create Your Own Economy

What is the measure of a successful life? Is it measured by the size of our homes, by our lifestyles or the number of toys? Or is it measured by the difference we make? We have a certain amount of time and energy to give in this life. At the end we leave behind an impact that lives beyond us.

Some of us are socialized to think that either we contribute or we accumulate. But perhaps it is through contribution that we receive more of what we desire for ourselves. If we consider the people in history who are most revered, it is for what they gave not for what they got that we hold them in such high esteem.

We all have something to give. Living in the question of “what can I give” may be a path to living the way we all hope to live.