Rick Torrison argues that shifting from 'what's in it for me?' to 'who can I serve?' leads to significance instead of just success. He walks through defining your core values as non-negotiables, then checking whether your work actually aligns with them. The talk includes exercises like writing one way to add value without expecting anything back.
I want you to write down one way that you can add value to their life without expecting anything in return. Right? Because that's going to get us out of thinking what's in it for me to what can I do for others? That simple shift is where I think fulfillment begins. You know Maxwell, John Maxwell is one of my mentors and he says success is when I add value to myself. Significance is when I add value to others. So pick three people and what's that you want to serve? And what is something you can do to add value to them? Check your alignment. It's really important. One of the reasons success feels empty is because it's often driven by achievement rather than alignment. Alignment is when what you do matches why you do it. What I do matches why I do it. It's when our actions are in sync with our values, our core values, our life's purpose. So I want you to ask yourself, what are your core values? I've got a bunch of teaching in the Living Limitless app. You can get that. You can go to my Rick bot, ask it about how do I define my values and it'll give you a whole process. But you need to know what your core values are, those non negotiables. Then you need to ask does my current work align with those values? Am I working in a way that my values fit, are aligned there and then am I living out of my why my purpose and what I'm doing every day? Is that driving me behind my job, what I'm doing? So if you're not clear on your core values, I would encourage you take time to define them. They're your non negotiables.
