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What Leo Tolstoy and Tony Robbins Share in Common

Not feeling buckets of joy these days?

Clifford Jones
5 min readJan 16, 2022

Fear not! Here’s a beautiful quote from Leo Tolstoy …

“But joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”

Leo Tolstoy 1897, F. W. Taylor, Public domain, Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white

Learning from Masters

What’s the lesson we can learn from living life “as a service?” You’re about to learn that Leo Tolsoy and Tony Robbins understand the power of giving and knowing who we are.

In other words, what gifts do we have to offer, and what might they be worth if nothing more than the pure joy of making a difference for a stranger with a smile?

The purpose of this article is to inspire you by thinking carefully about your gifts and how you can make a more significant difference, even if it’s a Pickleball lesson.

Here’s a Wikipedia excerpt revealing part of Leo Tolstoy’s story …

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.[3] He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. That he never won is a major…

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Clifford Jones
Clifford Jones

Written by Clifford Jones

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