After all, who cares about what type of person a Dr should treat, as long as there’s money, right?

As far as a money grabbing character is concerned, why care who the person that will benefit from the touch of your culminated skills REALLY is, right?

But you showed otherwise. You had to do the mind games.

There’s a great conscience to benefit only those who deserved to benefit, not wantonly serving even the murderous and criminal minded, when you can put your skills to better use for better people.

However when you can come round to full realization of treating people equally, because EVERYBODY is equally precious, that’s a vast and profound statement.

And you do it not because of money but because of a moral issue. You saw there’s good in every individual, whatever station they are in life.

You are impacting on the good side of mankind. Touching on the good souls of people wherever you’ve treaded.

It’s a spiritual lesson for us lesser mortals.

Well done my good man.

Generous!

Inspiring!

In short:

Beautiful!

…
Take to heart Dr. Mani’s Post
…

And Extend to the Future and
leave a meaningful Legacy
to all the children of the world.

Cordialement

Joel Bomane from Sunny Sudden France

You are also seen when you think no-one else is looking.

That’s what really tells about you and what your character make-up is… and in my not-so-humble-opinion, is the greatest source influence you can have on others. It is in the mosaic of character that you create, that, in the end, tells the world who and what you are – and what your legacy will be.

Let me give you an example from my own life’s experiences:

In 1998, when I first started being active on what was then a fairly new medium for me… the Internet. A now good friend had just started a website to freely discuss and promote entrepreneurship for anyone interested. The intent was to provide a free, “NO BS” service – without promoting OR selling anything – just teaching entrepreneurship and sharing real-world business information that worked.

Since I was “retired” from the business world, I thought this a grand idea. That little inner voice told me to share what I had learned in a long life-time, having has some very grand successes along the way (and not too few failures too!), and lessons to teach to whomever would use what I could and would pass along.

In the early days, we had very few visitors (we also did little to no promotion)… but we still posted numerous messages (for the archives mainly!) – and I created a lot of valuable information pages (Marty, my friend and partner, didn’t have all the skills needed for this). As time went along, the membership steadily rose, and after 10 years, we have served/helped well more than 30,000 folks at various stages of entrepreneurship – and continue the service to this day.

With this in mind, we now have many 1,000’s of members, followers and regular readers – as well as having created a sort-of mastermind group to provide for, and share in, many areas of business and entrepreneurial expertise. The “member-experts” now range from a former director of a regional SBDC, an owner of a large CPA firm, a well-qualified and diverse corporate/business lawyer, several former college professors for business, and a fairly large number of long-time entrepreneurs and former & current business owners… some from large businesses and some from small businesses, but with one commonality – each had built at least one very successful enterprise for themselves.

(We also have some of the biggest names in today’s on-line businesses as members too. Most just “monitor” us – with some using us and what we post as “lead-ins” or idea-generators for their own e-zines and websites.)

These days, the “ripples” from our archives and pages, many written in the early, lean days still carry great influence on every visitor that bothers to search our site. On an almost daily basis, I get emails from members and non-members alike telling me about their experiences (gotta’ love that feedback!) with the information we provide. Sometimes they have a follow-up question, but many times – their message is just one of appreciation for all the things they’ve learned from us – without spam, scams or cons.

Most of all, they tell me on a very consistent basis just how “refreshing” it is to get all this help… without any commercial intent! (Not that I have any problems with folks making money from selling info, it’s just not they way we want to do things… OK?)

That, in a nutshell, is my “payoff” – a job well done. A legacy left.
Thanks folks!

BTW: My original philanthropic intent stills holds sway… teach and share.

I didn’t care then, nor do I care now about making money from this endeavor… it was, and still is my personal passion to share with willing listeners, no matter who, what or where they may be. “Lady Luck” has shown her lovely face to me in many ways… and in my dotage, all I want to do now is keep the things I’ve learned along the way alive. Passed to willing listeners – and to folks that will take action on what we share.

Could I capitalize on this?
Yes, definitely.

Will I capitalize on all this?
Probably not.

That’s not who I am.

You see – I don’t care who’s looking – or if anyone is even looking. I serve but one master…
and it’s all for him, because…
I know he’s looking all the time.

-Nick

PS: Some words to live by: Let him who would be great among you be servant to all.

Mark 9:35 – Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”

2 Chronicles 10:7 – If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants forever.

1 Corinthians 9:19 – For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

Greatness in the kingdom of heaven consists in doing, rather than in being, and in doing for others, rather than for self. Greatness is to be found in service. Only those men are truly great who are the servants of their race, helpers of mankind.

I also liked the bits about using “mind games” to get yourself to do things you need to do; I plan to use it myself, whenever I lack motivation to do things I think are worth doing, but are not always enjoyable.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Then my spirit led me, reluctantly, to Twitter to sign off, I thought. Then I saw your link to this post…I must admit, I felt too tired to read but again, my spirit compelled me on.

ALL of this to say that this is clearly the reason I’m still up. I NEEDED to read this message. It is a powerful message. Helping and profoundly impacting people, especially those who are most in need and too easily discarded is my purpose in life. I get drained sometimes and today was one of those days.

Thank you from the bottom, middle and top of my heart for being an angel, sent to whisper a word of encouragement to a somewhat weary soul. I am so glad I trusted my inner spirit!

All the best to you Dr. Mani.

“While ripples on a pond’s surface can’t spread beyond the limits of the pond itself, YOUR impact has absolutely no limits to how and where it can spread.”

This is the principle of precession R. Buckminster Fuller talked about – the effect of bodies in motion on bodies in motion. Our true life’s purpose is always at a 90 degree angle to our forward motion. Like the bumble bee buzzing around getting nectar, he has no idea he’s pollinating the flowers in the process! We often have no idea the tremendous impact we’re leaving in our wake and our ripples and our footsteps.

Btw, be sure to also check out Ken McArthur’s excellent book, IMPACT!

Cheers,
Mari
@marismith