Arriving at the wrong answers to these questions can prevent us from maintaining focus on fulfilling God's purpose for our lives and achieving balance with other of life's demands. We must pursue the answers to these questions in order to understand God's thinking. Evaluation Questions 1. Define your concept of significance. Define your concept of success.
Most people define success as the achievement of an objective.
As a matter of fact, success in life is found in the achievement of many objectives over many years and in many areas. Thus we speak of a profile of success and people's perception of our profile of success when we speak of being successful. Success must be related to our purpose because in some ways our purpose will define our goals, our direction. Therefore, we must know our purpose before we can define success. Significance is defined as having importance or consequence.