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Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Happiness Is Not The Best Way To Measure Success

Should happiness or productivity be the measure of whether you’ve lived a good life?

Author and career coach Marty Nemko thinks that the answer is productivity. As he points out in his latest book What’s The Big Idea: Reinventions for a Better America: “the extent to which you have left the world better is, in my view, the most valid criterion for assessing whether you’ve lived a worthwhile life.”

Instead of filling our lives with things that might make us happy in the moment like video games, movies, tasty foods, fancy clothes, vacations, or a nice car, he recommends that we live life by using The Meter. The idea is simple yet powerful:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The world measures success by wealth, job position, possessions, things that will fall away. In my opinion, success is measured by how GOD sees me and the fact that in the end, I can say I ran the race of life and finished well.

Anonymous said...

Thanks 12:39. We could all use your little reminder once in awhile.