Views Of Success
Six different men - their
definitions of success are all different - and yet all the same.
Mark Manthei explained his
perspective on success. “My personal
success is in having a wife I’ve been married to for almost twenty-five
years. I have four wonderful kids who
have taken hold of the faith my wife and I share in Christ. And I think we have a relationship with our
God that will carry into eternity. We
have been blessed by God. We’ve tried to
operate our company on the principles put forth in the Bible and I think that
anyone who operates based on those principles is going to be successful form a
business point of view.”
“Having a personal
relationship with this master designer, having a relationship where I
understand why I am here and why I exist, I feel that this is what makes me
successful,” explained Tim Manthei.
“It’s understanding why I’m here and then doing what I was created to
do.”
“If I could share one
thing with my counterparts around the world,” offered Ben. “If I could help them find the success, the
fulfillment, the purpose in life I’ve found in my personal relationship with
Jesus – that’s the most amazing thing I could share. I believe every one of us was designed by God
for a purpose. If we can unlock and find that purpose we were designed for, and
then be obedient to do it, we will be successful at whatever we do.”
Jim contributed this
definition. “I attribute success to
having God’s blessing. Having the
ability to work together as a team, and part of teamwork is having the ability
to put others needs ahead of your own. I
would say that the Christian mindset, thinking as a Christian the way Jesus
Christ set it out works. It works in
life, it works in family, it works in your home, it works in everything you do.”
“I define success as doing
what I’ve been designed to do,” Dan told us towards the end of taping the
show. “I feel personally that I fit into
what I was designed to do. Money is not
the end goal. Money is a means to an end. If we don’t have the proper goal in mind
money will destroy more than it will help.
People are designed to have a relationship with their designer. The designer, which I believe is the God of
the Bible, designed us specifically to have fellowship with him. So, the purpose we have is to develop that
fellowship with Him and help as many other people see that relationship as
possible.”
Last but not least, Tom
Manthei provided his view on the subject of success. “Success and significance is not so much a
material thing. It’s not based on how
much money you have or how many cars you have or how many material things you
have. Success to me and significance to
me would be my ability to allow God to accomplish through me what His purpose
is. If God can accomplish through me
what He has designed me to do, that is success, that is significant.”
Shortly after taping this
collection of perspectives on success Ben Manthei added something of a
footnote. “There are times I feel we
have an unfair advantage. When we’re
doing our work I feel like we have a higher purpose, a calling that gives us an
advantage even in the workplace because we have a reason for doing what we do.”
© 2012 Philip Kassel
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