How Do You Measure The Success of Your Efforts?
How do we measure the success of our efforts? How do we know whether we have truly accomplished our goals? By the quantity of our output? By the quality of our work performance? By the timeliness and speed with which we have finished the task?
Certainly we have learned to measure our success by the above means. We measured it by the measure that was expected of us, either by our previous classroom teachers when we were young, or by our bosses when we began our Corporate endeavors.
How have you faired so far? Have you met all their expectations? Have you stressed yourself out in trying to do so? If you were your own boss, how would you measure your own success?
What If You Were Your Own Boss?
If we were our own boss, we’d probably be more lenient with ourselves, don’t you think? We’d probably use other measures like the effect of our work upon others, or how lives were changed, and how hearts were touched along the way by the work that we did.
Even then, don’t you think we’d still feel frustrated at times? Don’t you think you’d feel as though you weren’t doing enough, and that people aren’t responding to whatever it is you’re doing? In the end, we may actually be using a far higher measure for our success if we were our own boss!
Is There Another Measure?
True, you might say. But you may ask, is there any other measure?
I believe that there is, and that measure is LOVE.
It is therefore not in the effect of our works that we begin to measure ourselves, but in the very act of working, of working with love. How much love have you put in your work? How much passion? For if we were truly passionate with our works, the act of doing them would be a reward in itself, we would seek no other.
God uses the same measure. He doesn’t measure whether your efforts have resulted in more people being blessed, or in more hearts being healed. He can take care of all that! What God wants from you is your honesty and your unquestionable dedication and faith to the mission He has given you. Can anything be simpler than that?
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
-Mother Teresa
Find hope in your darkest hour.
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3 replies on “How Do You Measure The Success of Your Efforts?”
Hi Joyce,
Yes, I think with passion for what we do everyday we’d feel rewarded no matter what the financial outcome was! To be lucky enough to do what you love every day is a blessing.
@Angela – Hi Angela, it’s a blessing indeed, a God-given gift! 😉
Love can make a BIG difference in how we respond to the situations around our daily labour. Thanks.