“Be better today than
you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.”
Lorenzo
Snow
How do you define personal greatness? To be great in your eyes does it require that
you achieve some great accomplishment, earn a certain dollar amount, or receive
a certain recognition or position? Too
many of us define greatness by comparing ourselves against others. And though I’m not opposed to comparisons and
competition, I think basing our feelings, thoughts, and even often our
self-esteem in measuring our personal greatness to others is unfruitful,
unwise, and unhealthy.
To me personal greatness is doing our very best every day
and helping others to do the same. Each
of us has different limitations, skills, and talents. Each of us has unique experiences, education,
and backgrounds. Regardless of all of
our many differences, I believe each of us has an opportunity to be great every
single day. When we truly strive to do
our personal best every day, we will be able to accomplish things beyond anyone’s
imagination—including our own.
Notice also that personal greatness as I define it requires
us to help others. This is contrary to
our competitive, often cut throat society though I believe when we truly help
others be great, we become greater ourselves.
Again we can be great every single day by helping and encouraging others
to do their personal best.
So rather than determine our personal greatness on
accolades, awards, or recognition from others we should base it on our personal
effort. Are we doing our personal best
today? Are we helping others to do the
same? When we can honestly answer yes to
these questions we are achieving personal greatness—and we can make this happen
every single day. Being personally great
every single day should be a lifelong pursuit for us all. Here’s to being GREAT!
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