There’s a silly little voice that will whisper into your ear and tell you that you aren’t there yet. You can’t possibly benefit anyone with what you are doing. Maybe someday, when you’re a bigger deal, but right now? You’re mostly nonessential.
Your platform isn’t large enough.
Your church isn’t big enough.
Your non-profit doesn’t have enough funding.
Your business doesn’t pull enough profit.
You haven’t been married for long enough.
You’re single.
You’re not old enough.
You’re not young enough.
In other words, you’re not there yet. Someday. Maybe. But not now.
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I got a text the other day from a friend. It went something like this:
“I was just talking to a guy I work with. He said his wife reads your blog and it was the deciding factor that led her to agree with his dream of opening his own store.”
But I don’t have enough readers to influence that kind of meaningful change. My novel hasn’t been published. I don’t have a bestseller. Right? RIGHT?
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Have you considered the thought that right now you are enough? Have you considered the thought that your
small church
small non-profit
small business
small blog
small book
small acts of kindness
are making big waves in someone’s life? Someone you don’t know or will never meet or will probably never hear from. Someone who needs the words you are writing or the good you are doing or the questions you are asking. Someone for whom your existence
is enough.
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Believing this, how does it change the way you do what you do? How would you approach each day differently if you believed that a person’s life will be altered, in large ways or small ways, by the quality of the job that you do?
Your purpose in life isn’t out there somewhere, in that faraway land when you have 10,000 Facebook followers or sell 100,000 books or your church goes mega or your business expands or your non-profit has enough money to save all the children in the world.
Your purpose is today. Right now.
Whatever you’re doing, do it well.
That is enough.
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Please come back tomorrow for the first installment of a new Friday series in which individuals involved in fostering or adoption share their stories. Trust me – you don’t want to miss it.
