Impacting the World with the investment of your Internal Capacity

                              Work on being and not on having. – TL Osborne

For many people success is all about the money they have and what they can acquire with it. Although money and the things money can buy are important, this perspective of success is grossly lopsided and inadequate for the present-day world. I say this not because success hasn’t always been more than just money but because of the dire need of the world for people who have substance within them.

The story of Moses is an interesting one. It applies more-so today as it has always done. He was born at a time when giving birth to a son was a major quandary. The most powerful man on earth had decreed that male babies born to Israeli families be killed – this was his own birth control measure. In Moses’ case he was favored enough to be raised in the home of Pharaoh and so escaped death. Beyond escaping death, he was also raised as a prince undergoing all the teachings needed for an heir-apparent. He was trained on administration, public relations, dispute settlement, and managing people. After forty years of the best training money can pay for, he spent the next forty years in the wilderness tending sheep for his father in-law. If you love activity and movement then the life of a shepherd isn’t the best career choice for you. Everyday seems like the day before. With sheep as his only companions, he learned to be extremely patient.

Moses was now not only trained in the complicated skill of leading people, he was also trained to be patient at all times. Then – only then – came the last forty years of his life. Moses led the whole nation of Israel out of captivity, stood in as the only obstacle to their destruction many times, dialogued with troublesome citizens, delegated his responsibilities to others, established the first known constitution, and many more things. By the end of Moses’ life it was obvious that he was a very successful leader and person. Moses was successful not because of the money he earned or even the office he occupied, but because of the impact his internal capacity made to the world around him.

That is the definition of success – impacting the world around you with the investment of your internal capacity. It is an investment because it takes years of building and consistency to enlarge your internal capacity. It takes years of (sometimes) painstaking reading, practice, volunteering, practice, service, practice, practice, practice to enlarge your internal capacity.

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