The happiest people on the planet, those with the most zest for life were people who had one thing in common, they all had a purpose for their life. It wasn’t that they had a lot of money. There’s a lot of research that says people with more money actually have more problems. I think the latest I heard was, I believe it was Sonja Lyubomirsky who said, “People who have a net worth of $6 million are only incrementally happier than blue-collar workers.” Basically, you get to a certain level of money where more money doesn’t bring more happiness or more longevity. What this database revealed was the happiest people all had some meaning and some reason and some purpose in their days. So, if you want to stay young, and if you want to stay nimble and vibrant and fully alive, find some meaning to devote yourself to, find what I call a compelling cause that’s larger than yourself to donate the rest of your early years to. That could be, you know what? You’re a teacher. So, it’s being the finest teacher in your field, so you raise or influence a young generation to be leaders versus victims. You can be a taxi driver, but your meaning is every day, every single person who gets into your cab, you leave them better than you found them. For me, my obsession is I want to help you be a leader without a title. I want you to help you play a rare-air in your work. I want to help you be exponentially happier. I want you to live a life that makes history and release any form of mediocrity in your life. That’s why I travel as much as I do. That’s why I still work as hard as I do. That’s why I optimize everything I do, because I want to serve. I want to give. I want to be an instrument that touches as many people as possible, as long as I get to live. So, I uplift other human beings.
