“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
The Sunday Snippet on Beyond the Rhetoric, in case you haven’t been playing along at home, is a new weekly feature where I take a memorable, insightful, or otherwise thought-provoking quote and discuss some of its ramifications on our modern lives. In the first Sunday Snippet, we took at look at how we sabotage our own success. The following weekend, we discussed the importance of imagination. For today’s snippet, we look toward how to lead a meaningful life.
The name Mitch Albom may not ring a bell, but you may be familiar with his best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie
It may be true that happiness must be derived from within, but true meaning in life can only be achieved when you look beyond yourself and devote yourself to others. This can come from volunteering for charitable organizations, devoting yourself to an important cause, or developing something that can be useful for many generations to come. Contrary to popular belief, you can do well by doing good. But you absolutely must do good first.
Winston Churchill echoes this sentiment: “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” The more you give, honestly and fully, the more meaning you’ll be able to derive from your life.
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Um, Didn’t know Mitch had a book. I know him as a sports writer and member of the ESPN show “The Sports Reporters”. I’ll have to add it to the need to read list.
I’ve read Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in heaven, and For One More Day, all three written by Mitch Albom.
They’re great books and I highly recommend them. They quite the eye openers.
I read an advanced copy of HAVE A LITTLE FAITH
and must say it was a great book. It really does leave you thinking about your faith, your beliefs and kind of leaves you want to be a better person after all was said and done.
Without giving anything away, one of the things that Mitch Albom writes about in the book, is being asked by his Rabbi to write his eulogy. That got me thinking about how important it is to tell the people we love all of the GREAT things about them while they’re ALIVE! So I started a Facebook email sent to 5 friends, writing 5 things I think are absolutely wonderful and fabulous about them. I encouraged them to do them same thing to 5 of their friends. And I encourage YOU to do the same.
It’s the one thing I really took away from his book, and I’m glad I did. It’s made a lot of people happy in return.
Order this book! It really is a good read.