If you’ve been following my work from The Greatness Guide book, that’s a long time you’ve been following my work. You know that service, helpfulness, and contribution has been the foundation of my philosophy. I really believe that to lead is to serve. I really believe that we are incarnated for a relatively short period of time in the overall scheme of eternity. And we’re here to love. We’re here to love ourselves. We’re here to embrace our greatness and then allow it to see the light of day. We’re here to love other human beings. We all belong to one tribe. We’re connected. We really are. And ultimately, I think the greatest form of wealth is knowing that every day, in your big or small way, you’re making the lives of other people better and brighter and easier. You’re a “humble servant,” to use the words of that guide who guided me into Nelson Mandela’s prison cell. Remember when I asked him, “Oh, did you know Nelson Mandela?” He said, “Yes. I served with him for…” I think it was seven years. And I said, “What was he like?” And the guide said, “Oh, that man was a humble servant.” And I had someone who I mentored say to me, “I don’t like the term servant. It makes me feel weak. I don’t like the term servant.” He said, “I’m strong. I’m a leader.” To me, being a servant to other human beings is the strongest thing you could ever be, to get up every morning and ask yourself, not as a platitude, not as an intellectual exercise, but from your Heartset in a very emotional felt, feeling way, “How may I best serve as many people as possible?” All it takes is one comment to someone in pain to lift their day. All it takes is one minute where you sit down with a teammate and you help them become bigger. Because the job of a leader is to grow more leaders.Your job, and my job, no matter what you do, is to make people believe in themselves again and help them live their greatness. Your job is to improve other human beings. Imagine if you improved through being positive and kind and exemplifying excellence. Imagine if you improved even three lives every day. At the end of one week, that’s 21 lives. At the end of one month, 20, let’s say 20, 20, 20, 20, four twos are eight, that’s 80 lives. At the end of one year, that’s roughly 900 lives. At the end of 10 years, that’s 10,000 lives that you have lifted through your service. Please don’t tell me you can’t change the world. 10 years, 10,000 lives. Imagine if it was 10people every day.
