Your Calling is Calling
Success or Significance?
In 1960, a 20-year study of graduate students was begun. The study compared two groups of people depending upon how they answered this question:
“Should I focus first on financial security, and then pursue what is fulfilling to me? Or should I follow my interests, and trust that money will eventually follow?”
83% of the people in the study decided that making money should come first in order to create the opportunity to pursue their true interests. It’s a decision that most of us make when we face reality.
But as time goes by, we may find that a growing dissatisfaction with our work settles in. And we begin to question the validity of our decisions.
Perhaps you’ve asked yourself…
“Should I continue working in a business or career that provides little satisfaction… because it pays the bills? Or have I reached a point in my life that it’s time do something significant?”
Looking back at the two groups of graduate students, during the study an amazing pattern emerged. After 20 years, 101 of them were millionaires. Only 1 of them came from the group…

