LIVING A LIFE THAT MATTERS
If you are alive today then you have two choices; you can
live a life that has no real substance or you can live a
life that matters. What's the difference?
To get up everyday, go to work, come home, relax, spend time
with family and loved ones only to go to bed and repeat that
cycle every day is not a fulfilling life. Yes, it is
functional. It may even pay the bills. But your life is
about much more than just paying the bills.
What about a life where you still get up, go to work and
come home to relax with family and friends but to find more
than that. To discover that there are hurting people all
around us who can use a hand up instead of a handout. To
inspire, encourage and enable people to get back up again.
To go to bed each night feeling like your contribution to
someone else's life has made a difference is a great way to
end the day.
No matter what accomplishments you may be able to do in your
lifetime, the things that will have the longest lasting
effect are the things you do that impact another person's
life in a positive way. To feed the hungry when you are able
to eat each day and make that happen for others is great; to
clothe the naked when your closet is full of clothes is
fulfilling. To visit the sick, comfort the lonely and show
compassion to the hurting gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling
in your heart.
What matters most to you? What encourages you each day to
get up and keep on keeping on? What offers you the most
fulfilment? Do you realize that you were put here on this
earth for a reason? Every life, no matter how insignificant,
matters. Actually there are no insignificant lives.
Some of us may do things that warrant more attention, make more
money or end up in the public eye. But a mother who cares
for her children has a significant life. A father who cares
for his sick parents has a significant life.
A teacher who impacts the lives of her students has a life
that matters.No matter where a person is in life, if they
make someone else's life better, they are doing something
that matters.
Live for more than yourself. Make the lives of others better
because you are alive.
Col Rajendra Shukla
live a life that has no real substance or you can live a
life that matters. What's the difference?
To get up everyday, go to work, come home, relax, spend time
with family and loved ones only to go to bed and repeat that
cycle every day is not a fulfilling life. Yes, it is
functional. It may even pay the bills. But your life is
about much more than just paying the bills.
What about a life where you still get up, go to work and
come home to relax with family and friends but to find more
than that. To discover that there are hurting people all
around us who can use a hand up instead of a handout. To
inspire, encourage and enable people to get back up again.
To go to bed each night feeling like your contribution to
someone else's life has made a difference is a great way to
end the day.
No matter what accomplishments you may be able to do in your
lifetime, the things that will have the longest lasting
effect are the things you do that impact another person's
life in a positive way. To feed the hungry when you are able
to eat each day and make that happen for others is great; to
clothe the naked when your closet is full of clothes is
fulfilling. To visit the sick, comfort the lonely and show
compassion to the hurting gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling
in your heart.
What matters most to you? What encourages you each day to
get up and keep on keeping on? What offers you the most
fulfilment? Do you realize that you were put here on this
earth for a reason? Every life, no matter how insignificant,
matters. Actually there are no insignificant lives.
Some of us may do things that warrant more attention, make more
money or end up in the public eye. But a mother who cares
for her children has a significant life. A father who cares
for his sick parents has a significant life.
A teacher who impacts the lives of her students has a life
that matters.No matter where a person is in life, if they
make someone else's life better, they are doing something
that matters.
Live for more than yourself. Make the lives of others better
because you are alive.
Col Rajendra Shukla
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