{"id":2881,"date":"2017-12-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2018-02-01T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T22:12:01","slug":"three-minute-leadership-living-a-life-of-significance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2017\/12\/three-minute-leadership-living-a-life-of-significance\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Living a Life of Significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black\">To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black\">\u201c<i>It\u2019s not what we get, but who we become, what we contribute\u2026that gives meaning to our lives<\/i>\u201d writes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Robbins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Robbins<\/a><span style=\"color: black\">. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_C._Maxwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Maxwell<\/a><span style=\"color: black\"> adds greater depth to those words saying: \u201c<i>Success is when I add value to myself. Significance is what I add value to others<\/i>.\u201d And <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oprah_Winfrey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0writes: \u201c<i>The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black\">Living a life of significance goes far beyond the personal successes of achieving wealth, recognition or power. While achieving these things is laudable and gives testimony to finding and applying the gifts within each of us, there is more, another step beyond success. It is living a life of purpose and meaning, of giving oneself to others that they may grow. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Blanchard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken Blanchard<\/a><span style=\"color: black\"> writes \u201c<i>If that\u2019s all you\u2019re focused on, you\u2019re missing the boat\u2026 if you focus on significance \u2013 using your time and talent to serve others \u2013 that\u2019s when truly meaningful success can come your way<\/i>.\u201d On your magnificent life\u2019s journey may you remember the words of a beautiful quote attributed to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shakespeare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Shakespeare<\/a><span style=\"color: black\">: \u201c<i>The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away<\/i>.\u201d May all your dreams be realized in living your significance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black\">Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black\">Mike\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2788\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2016\/10\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning \u201cIt\u2019s not what we get, but who we become, what we contribute\u2026that gives meaning to our lives\u201d writes Tony&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}