What Motivates You?

What motivates you?

Money?
Just having to pay the bills?
A better life, to own your own house, a bigger house, a better car???
Power?

What is success to you?
A title?
A office?
A bigger office?
Having enough money to provide for your family?

As we get older and mostly without even knowing it, we find ourselves in a place where we are working only to try to keep our nose above the water. We accumulate possessions and keep accumulating until we owe so much that we start to panic and stress.

Who did this to us? Us.

Less is more...that needs to be our new battle cry. If you can't afford it, don't buy it. Credit cards were one of the evils that took my generation down. We simply bought it and worried about paying it for it later.

Money can not be your ultimate motivation because power and money are fleeting. It is not a real tangible thing.
The old saying is "be nice to people on the way because they are the same people you will meet on the way down".

Relationships are real, honesty and always putting others first is real.

Gale Sayers has a book called, I Am Third.  The title comes from a sign he had on his desk: "I am third, GOD is first, family is second, I am third."

Success is not how much you have but what difference you have made in the lives of others.

Toward the end of Paul Arpin's life, he would tell me that he did not "need" the money. He did not want for anything. He led a simple life, he lived in the same house for his whole marriage...a house he paid cash for. A simple modest home.

What motivated Paul was the challenge of always trying to do better and helping others.