You want to get involved in helping to make the world a better place. You see so many places that need your help. But there are 6.8 billion people on the planet. You see so many things that need to be done. There are so many demands on your time, your attention, your energy, your resources. What can you, as one individual do that will make any impact on this enormous world?
Here’s how you change the world, one moment at a time, one person at a time.
In 2008 Zainab Beckett saw a special report on CNN. A small boy begged for his life before a group of soldiers.
When the child turned, they shot him.
They killed him.
Zainab knew this boy’s death was her call to action. ZCD Foundation is the profound purpose grown out of this shattering pain. In less than two years, “Zee” Beckett, her friend Dallas Sisolack, and their ZCD Foundation’s commitment to the motto “Water is Life” has saved the lives of 14,000 people. Her farming, education and construction programs are empowering women and children and giving young people the safety and education they need to improve the future of Sierra Leone.
Are you a “Leader”?
I don’t ask you the question as a challenge.
I don’t ask you the question as an insight.
I’m simply asking you a question.
And, I don’t know whether or not you have your own answer.
But, I will ask you to consider my question with honesty.
If you are a “Leader” you are tremendously necessary to this world of ours.
We are a gifted and an empowered planet.
We need leaders.
We need conscientious and informed debate and problem solving.
The answer to my initial question will be “no”, for many of you.
To those of you who in pride or in hesitation choose “no” as the most honest answer to that question allow me to hand you an observation to twirl around in the elegant light of your consciousness.
Your current truth of yourself may be changed by an act that moves you,
an idea that motivates you,
a horror that challenges you,
an adventure that educates you,
a crisis that alters you,
a milestone that compels you,
a phenomenon that excites you,
an emergency that galvanizes you,
a life that inspires you,
or,
a love that defines you.
I am not attempting, in anyway, to deny your understanding or belief in your “self” or your concept of your “self”. My point is simply, our life redefines us in ways we never expect. When this happens — we change. It is as if the energy swirling within us and around us marshals forces of movement, impelling us to engage capabilities, skills, powers and understanding seemingly greater and/or more directed than we’ve retrieved before.
And I offer you this additional thought. Trust the change.
But, until it comes, if it ever comes….. I ask you to be the leader of that, which by its very definition, ONLY you can be the leader of – your INTEGRITY.
Are you a “Leader”?
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