Go For the “Fun” or Go For the Money? That question was, in some way, what the late Scrully Blotnick, Ph.D., decided to find out. He studied the career choices and consequent financial success of about 1500 people. Group A of the study (83% of the people) picked a career where they assumed they could make a lot of cash. Group B in the study (only 17%) picked a career because they had a desire for or enjoyed that type of work. We will call them the “fun” crowd. Now you and I both know that life is not always fun, but Group B did enjoy their work a lot more than Group A enjoyed theirs, so we’ll say they had fun. What do you think the results of the study were? Who made the most money in the long run? Well, after 20 years the results were in. Out of all the people in the study, there were 101 millionaires. All but 1 of them was in Group B, the group that went for the fun and not the money. Dr. Boltnick concluded, “…the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their “luck” arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.”
Now the point is not that success equals a wallet full of cash and a BMW or two out in front of the house, but that God gives us each gifts and abilities and we are best suited to be successful when we are following our God given design and our God given desires.
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Mark Twain wrote in – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court “…the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash…”
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