The question is, what do you really
want out of life? Are you money-motivated or service oriented? Knowing the
answer to this question is part of knowing what motivates you and contributes
to your success and happiness.
Making money: A
powerful motivator
Do you aspire to a big house, -a
healthy bank account, a big car, a home in the country, exotic vacations,
expensive jewelry and clothing, and so on?
Those materials ambitions are no
necessarily wrong—if you pursue them with the right mindset. In many cases,
numerous people benefits from one person’s prosperity. For example, if you are
an extraordinararily successful salesperson, selling useful goods or services,
you put literally hundreds of people to work supplying those goods and
services. However , if your method of acquiring those material goods is opening
sweatshops, paying substandard wages, creating intolerable working conditions,
and literarily taking the joy of life and freedom from those on whose back you
are riding, you are pursuing those material ambitions with the wrong mindset.
If money motivates you, you probably
don’t want to pursue a career such as a minister or elementary school teacher,
because those types of careers are not particularly high paying.
Service: Helping others
to grow
If your joy and excitement comes from
teaching and helping other people to grow, you find more satisfaction in
showing other people how to succeed in life. Just making lots of money won’t
satisfy you if you are service-oriented, because service oriented people need
see how their money and their time at work can be of service to others.
Many service-oriented people have
helped me to grow throughout my life. My first grade teacher taught me to read:
my former boss taught me the beauty of free entreprise, my history teacher
taught me to love history and to have compassion on other people and I read
about financial responsibility .
Everyone of those people played a
major role in my life, and I fully believe that they were so effective in
helping me and others to grow because their motivation in life was service to
others.
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