Top o’ the Mornin’ to Ya!
TLDR: Discover Zig Ziglar’s timeless principle for getting everything you want in life by helping enough other people get what they want, and why this aligns perfectly with Christian philosophy of loving and serving others.
What?
Do you want to know how to get everything you want in life? Zig Ziglar, one of my favorite stars in the space of getting what you want, doing what you want, being the best that you can be, selling and loving other people, says you can get anything you want in life by helping enough other people get what they want in life.
Isn’t that the whole Christian principle, the whole Christian philosophy? Love your neighbor as yourself, serve unto others, meeting their needs, giving to their needs.
As we look at the world, we see these big names – Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk – and we poo poo on all these highly successful people. What have they done? They’ve found a way to help more people in more ways by serving them, creating products, creating value.
There’s two depths to this all. The value of one on one is so amazing. And then the value of scale is so amazing. When we use both values – the value of intimacy, the value of one on one, the value of coming together and loving on somebody, investing time on them through connection, through coffee, through just support through a crappy time in their life – that’s incredible value.
And when we create products for lots of people, or we create information or share information for lots of people, that’s amazing too because it can be magnified. It’s amplified. It’s unstoppable. Just the reach and the passion and the value of helping so many people.
Back to the beginning quick: If you want everything you want, help people get what they want. Know them well enough to know what they want.
Why?
I share this because Kingdom Family Leaders often separate business success from Christian principles. We look at highly successful people and criticize rather than recognizing they’ve found ways to serve millions. We miss that Zig Ziglar’s principle is just the marketplace version of “love your neighbor as yourself.”
When we poo poo on successful people, we’re missing the lesson. They got what they wanted by helping massive numbers of people get what they wanted. That’s not opposed to Kingdom principles – that’s living them out at scale.
Lesson
You can get anything you want in life by helping enough other people get what they want. This isn’t manipulation or transaction – it’s the fundamental principle of value creation and service. The more people you help, the more you receive in return.
There are two powerful depths to serving others. One on one intimacy – Bible study, coffee, accountability, walking with someone through their crappy time – creates deep value and transformation. This is irreplaceable. Scale through products, information, and systems – reaches and helps massive numbers of people. This is amplified impact.
The mistake is choosing one over the other. Kingdom Family Leaders need both. The intimacy of one on one connection AND the reach of scaled service. Jesus did both – deep discipleship with the twelve AND teaching crowds of thousands.
Highly successful people aren’t enemies of Kingdom principles. Many have simply figured out how to help more people in more ways through products and value creation. When Bill Gates creates software that helps millions work better, when Elon Musk creates electric vehicles that reduce pollution, when any entrepreneur solves problems at scale – they’re helping people get what they want.
The key is knowing people well enough to know what they want. You can’t help people get what they want if you don’t understand their needs, desires, and struggles.
Apply
Identify one person you can help get what they want this week through one on one intimacy – deep conversation, support through struggle, investing time. Then identify one way you could help multiple people at scale – sharing knowledge, creating a resource, solving a problem that affects many. Practice both depths of service.
You be blessed!
