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Men of Integrity, September/October 2007

What's Not to Like?
Theme of the Week: Joy: A Trait to Cultivate
Sunday, October 14

Who Said It
Steven Scott

Steven Scott flunked out of nine jobs in his first six years after college. Yet on job number ten, Steve co-founded the American Telecast Corporation. With his partners he created a dozen multi-million-dollar direct-response television-marketing companies from scratch, generating sales of more than $2 billion. So maybe it's no great surprise that Steve has written The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, about Solomon's strategies for financial success and personal fulfillment.

What He Said
What's Not to Like?

If you could have any one thing in life, what would it be? Prosperity? Great health? A fabulous career? If you answer, "Prosperity," I'll respond, "What good is prosperity without health?" If you answer, "Great health," I'll point to a lot of healthy people who are miserable because they hate their jobs or don't make enough money.

"Though many measures of quality of life have risen since World War II," reported Holly Morris in U.S. News & World Report, "the number of people who consider themselves happy remains flat. Researchers have scads of information on what isn't making people happy. Once income provides basic needs, for instance, it doesn't correlate to happiness. Nor does intelligence, prestige, or sunny weather. People grow used to new climates, higher salaries, and better cars."

These things, and even a longer life, are only means to an end. What you really want goes one level deeper. What you really want is happiness.

Adapted from The Richest Man Who Ever Lived (WaterBrook, 2006) by permission.

Copyright © 2007 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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September/October 2007, Vol. 10, No. 5

0  Prayer for the Week 0

Teach me, Lord, how to harness Your joy to prevail over contrary circumstances.





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