True success. In the words of Dr. Ben Carson, "True success is using the talents that God has given you to elevate other people." What a wonderful definition of something that is so misunderstood in today's world. How many people have chased success and ended up unhappy and alone? For many of us success has been a checklist. Graduated from college. Check. Got that first real job. Check. Got married and bought my first house. Check. Had children, got a raise, moved into a bigger house and so on and so on. The list seems to be never ending and sucess is measured by a list of possessions and accomplishments. But, as nice as all these things are they will never guarantee that at the end of your life you will deem it a success. What if we instilled in our children from an early age that all of us are blessed with our own set of special gifts? What if we taught them that one gift wasn't more valuable than another? What if we stopped comparing gifts and just used them. But, the important thing to remember is that the gifts are to be used toward the betterment of others, not just ourselves. True success like Dr. Carson says lies in the fruit of these gifts.
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