happiness

"The secret to happiness is to find something more important than you are, and then dedicate your life to it." (Lovemarks, p.206)
Zig Ziglar says somewhere in one of his books. "The secret to getting whatever you want is to help other people get whatever they want."
Success, fame and fortune. These seem to be things our culture think are the routes to a happiness. But it seems to me that happy people are happy not because of success, fame or fortune, but because they are focused on something beyond themselves.
When I become the center of my universe I am less satisfied than when others are. Just ask Mother Theresa where she found her joy. She found it in serving the dying poor.
Today's question is ... What can you do today to place someone else in the center?