Waking up each day with the intention to find value in life and specifically others has become a perspective I thoroughly enjoy. If people can wake up mad at the world for no reason, then I can find joy, happiness, and value for no reason. I chose to see value in my failures, in myself, in my circumstances, in my family, friends, job, and in others. Many people are on a crusade to disqualify themselves and others for whatever reason they can justify in their minds… even if those reasons aren’t true nor make any sense. Looking for any excuse to hate others, be unhappy about life, or just be negative about everything. I’ve chosen for myself that I will attempt to look for any reasons to qualify others and myself in my mind. Looking for every excuse to see value in us, be happy, and optimistic. I look at others and see value in them, and search for ways to add value to them. Our perspective of a person will largely determine our response to the person. If we don’t view people as valuable, important, and worthy of our respect. Then we may not treat them as such. To treat people as valuable and important, you must view, think, talk, & feel that they are so. I’m reminded of a quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that said, “Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.” This is also how I view the way we see and treat ourselves. Even further, how we treat our circumstances, jobs, education, wives, children, goals, ambitions, passions, and possessions. We can make ourselves worse or better simply by the way we view ourselves. A simple perspective shift, whether naturally occurring or forced, can truly change our lives. How you see things is going to be how you treat them, how much you invest in them, and how much of an impact that investment will have on you or it. Same person, same circumstances, same job, same education, same wife and kids, same goals, same ambitions, same passions, and same possessions, yet a completely different attitude. A brand new zeal, a deeper investment, an enhanced vision, greater impacts, better results, rejuvenated motivation, and an unyielding devotion.

Everyone wants to experience fulfillment in their lives and many search for it outwardly. Although it’s the outward things that pour into us to bring about fulfillment, it’s not the outward things that we are seeking. Let me put it this way, when you pour yourself a cup of coffee, are you wanting the coffee-pot or the coffee? How about when pouring yourself a cup of milk; are you wanting the milk or the jug? You want what’s inside the container. Just like when someone pours into you, you’re not necessarily wanting the person, you’re wanting their wisdom and knowledge. Similar to the milk jug, let’s imagine fulfillment as a container; do you want the container or do you want what’s inside? People have contaminated themselves into believing that fulfillment is about what happens to them and for them, but fulfillment is not about outward success, accomplishment, status, position, or outcome. Fulfillment is the inward transformation of character through the process of continual growth and pouring into others. True fulfillment is more about what happens in you and through you. If that’s the case, then what is the purest form of fulfillment? In his letter to the Ephesians the Apostle Paul says it plainly, “To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” The purest form of fulfillment is to be filled with all the fullness of God. And the way to do that is by knowing the love of Christ. This is not the same as knowing God loves you, it’s knowing His love. When you have all the fullness of God in you then you’ll experience the most significant and purest form of fulfillment anyone could ever have.

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