Today’s book: Life’s Great Question by Tom Rath—a powerful roadmap for living a meaningful life by asking the simple yet profound question: “What can I contribute?”
Here’s your 1-minute summary:
- Shift from passion to contribution. Instead of chasing what excites you, focus on what you can give—that’s where meaning and impact emerge.
- Your contribution improves wellbeing. When your work serves others, your health, happiness, and performance all rise.
- Identify your Contribify strengths. Rath’s model categorizes 12 contribution styles (e.g. teaching, energizing, organizing)—use it to discover how you best add value .
- Urgency fuels action. Facing mortality taught Rath that time is finite—and that awareness can ignite purpose and contribution daily.
- Make your work a source of health. Reframing daily efforts as service can reduce stress, enhance energy, and turn work into wellness.
True impact isn’t about being impressive—it’s about being useful. What contribution will you make today?
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