Significance isn’t what we get … It’s what we do for others.*
Seth Godin
With your talents and abilities,
With what you hope for and are capable of,
With your heart,
It’s going to be hard for you to be insignificant.
It’s not about numbers,
Or success as often calculated, but
how you help to make something better,
Somewhere, for someone.
(When you free your imagination
to picture something better, what do you see?
It’s unlikely to come out of the blue
but grow out of your experience.)
*Seth Godin’s The Song of Significance.
THE NOTES (behind the reflection)
Significance is one of Strengthsfinder‘s 34 talent themes.
Its emphasis is not only on a personal desire to be recognised for one’s unique strengths, but to raise the belief and the play of those around.
I had been dreamwhispering with someone with this talent cum strength, and they were delighted to see how it included this emphasis on helping others to bring their best.
We all get the opportunity to be significant, though– perhaps not in the same way as people who excel in this talent, but nevertheless, when we have identified our own talents, when we have moved into our enriching environments, and when we are moving forward to the call of our values, then we will not only sense that this is important, but others will, too.
But it’s not about numbers; it may be for only one person, yet their life would be different if you or I did not step forward.
This is looking at life differently, growing into interdependence after independence.
If you have identified talents, enriching environments, and values, you can more trust your imagination and intuition, which have unfolded from the former.
THIN|SILENCE 