How can you tell you’re producing and delivering real value?
Ask yourself these questions: If you stopped doing what you do, who would care? Who would object loudly? Who would revolt?
If you’re creating and delivering genuine value, and you suddenly stop, people will notice. People will definitely care. Your contribution will be seriously missed. Such people may not even appreciate you for the value you are offering directly, especially if your contribution remains somewhat anonymous, but they’ll soon find out that something important is missing from their lives. Even if they don’t know you directly, the removal of your ongoing value creation and delivery will have a definite effect.
Comment
Women are God’s special creatures. They play a very important role in God’s agenda. When a man is blessed with a wonderful woman as wife, you should be thankful and do everything within your power to cherish her. The scriptures say “who can find a virtuous woman? Her price is far above rubies…” It takes searching for you to find her, they don’t fall from the sky and when you do get her, then, you have someone whose price is worth more than the most precious gemstone. You may not know the value of whom God has blessed you with until you see the pain another man goes through for marrying the wrong person. You come back home to the warm embrace of your wife; your neighbor comes home to meet a woman waiting to nag him to pieces. You come home to a well ‘home-cooked’ meal but not your neighbor; he’s got to fight for every meal he gets and you think you are not blessed? You’ve been with same woman for 5, 10, 15 or more years. The other guy isn’t that lucky: he’s had to cope with 3 marriages over the same period and even contemplating the fourth and you think you are not blessed? There is yet so much your wife can do but you have a role to play. When you fail to water a plant, it will wilt with time. Women are like such plants, when you fail to ‘water’ them you might lose them. Although you might remain married, but you will cease to enjoy your marriage. It is therefore of essence that you recognize and meet the needs of your wife. Examine some tips with me:
An old Grandfather, whose grandson came to him with anger, told him of the great injustice done to him by a schoolmate. The grandfather said, “Let me tell you a story. I too, at times, have felt a great hate for those that have taken so much, with no sorrow for what they do. But hate wears you down, and does not hurt your enemy. It is like taking poison and wishing your enemy would die. I have struggled with these feelings many times.”