The great basketball legend Michael Jordan said, “To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you must be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.”

Share Your Success: World Giving Index

The “World Giving Index” used a Gallup survey on the charitable behavior of people in 153 countries representing 95% of the world’s population. For all countries, WGI compared the strength of the relationship between giving with both a nation’s GDP, and the happiness of its population. 

The survey asked people whether they had given money to charity in the last month.  Then rank how happy they are with life on a scale of one to ten. WGI found that the link between happiness and giving is stronger than the link between wealth and giving.

The findings concluded that when a person gives to charity, not only the charity improves, but so does the happiness of the individual. It showed that happier people are more likely to give, not because they have more wealth, but because they have more happiness!

Sharing your success inspires others to do the same.

Remember our success directly affects those closest to us. And it would be a shame if we started to distance ourselves. To think we are somehow better than others. That somehow our success means we need to leave others behind just to keep moving ahead.

The fastest way is to separate ourselves is to become greedy and hide in our ‘mansions of superiority”.

I firmly believe our success is meant to be shared with others. The universal truth, you reap what you sow, plays an important point in this. When we learn to share our success, we not only help others, but we help ourselves. Like the Bible says, “Give and it will be given to you… for with the same measure that you use, it will be given back to you”.  

Obviously, we don’t share our success out of pure selfishness. Nor do we serve others because of personal gain.  We want to share our success to help bless others. Regardless of any personal benefit. Even though spreading-the-love often is reciprocal.

The Ten Commandments of Success were designed to help people find, quantify, design, organize and activate avenues of opportunities to find success for any endeavor of life. They are intended to help fulfill the various goals and dreams for our lives and those around us.

Being successful is not a means all to end all, but a series of steps we take to help us live healthy, full, and productive lives. AND leave a positive legacy for others to follow.