Daily Gratitude: This is something we all should examine at least once a year, if not more frequently. It’s a very hard question for most of us to answer. In this day and age we’ve been conditioned to strive for this, work for that. Maybe when we were children our parent instilled in us the idea of values and virtues but it didn’t take long for that to be replaced by accolades (or disparagement) when we brought home our report cards. Performance became the key indicator for everything. When I was working I used to argue with all the other leaders and I was definitely an outcast. They could only see someone’s worth and value based on their performance- how many cases they cranked out. They would not look at quality as an indicator of worth. The person who cherry picked 10 easy cases was a “more valued person” than the one who took the challenge of a complicated and complex case that required hours to complete properly. We needed both kinds of people in order to get through the numbers of cases we had but it was only the “productive” ones that got rewarded. What is your worth? How do you measure it? Is it even important to measure it? Was Mother Theresa heralded for the exact amount of people she met and helped or is she remembered for what she is – a caring, courageous and loving person? There are no numbers you can attach to that. Take some time this week to think about what your true worth is. What are you contributing to the world?