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3 actions to help you serve others creating a lasting influence that expands beyond yourself

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Morning Minute 11.13.26

What is Your Purpose? Three actions to help you serve others, creating a lasting influence that expands beyond yourself.

What is your purpose in life?

Is it to accumulate wealth, to achieve recognition, to advance your career, or to influence as many people as possible?

Or could your purpose be something far more meaningful?

In Matthew 5:13–16, Jesus describes His followers as the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

Salt enhances what it touches, making it more useful.

Light helps others see beyond today, toward who they will become, and toward the people they will influence.

Both remind us that our lives are intended to make a positive difference in the lives of others.

Consider what happens when something strikes water.

A stone creates ripples that spread beyond where it lands.

A boulder produces larger waves that can reach the far shore.

A volcano can produce sustained activity that eventually creates new land.

Each illustrates a different kind of impact.

But here's an important distinction:

The size of our influence doesn't determine the value of our service.

A parent teaching a child responsibility, a coworker helping someone learn a new skill, a neighbor assisting a struggling family, or a teacher encouraging a discouraged student may never know how far their influence will travel.

Yet the people they serve may influence others, who in turn will influence even more people.

That's how a circle of influence expands—not necessarily through recognition or position, but through service that multiplies.

And, we don't have to hold a leadership title to make a meaningful difference.

God has entrusted each of us with abilities, opportunities, and people we can serve.

Here are three actions to create your lasting influence by serving others:

1. Identify Your Circle.​
Recognize the people whose lives you touch through your family, work, friendships, community, and everyday encounters.

2. Serve Your Circle.​
Use your abilities to set an example, listen, encourage, teach, organize, motivate, and help others succeed.

3. Equip Others to Serve.​
Share what you've learned. Help others develop the character, confidence, knowledge, and abilities to make a difference in their own circles.

Our calling isn't to compete for the greatest influence.

It is to be faithful stewards of the influence we've been given.

Thus, as you consider the people within your circle, ask yourself:

Am I creating people who depend on me, or creating people who are better equipped to serve others?

Keep Learning. Keep Leading.

And remember: Information without transformation is wasted energy!

That is today’s Morning Minute.

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Today's quote: "Success leaves clues". Jim Roan​

The fastest way to success is by studying those who have been successful in the field you are in.

Discover their story. Study their temperament, actions, and results.

Find a way to incorporate what you learn from them to help you be more, do more, and create more!

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