4 Being helpful

Help me to help you. 

It's a phrase that I say a lot. I have worked in an educational field for all of my professional life. The thing that got me here was that I wanted to be able to help people, and I wasn’t smart enough to make it as a doctor. The point that I missed when I was young, was that I didn’t need some fancy education or certifications to help people, I didn’t need any of that in order to make a difference. 

The biggest difference you make in people's lives is not normally found in grand gestures and or running into burning buildings. The biggest difference you make on people is always found in the day to day. The most powerful way to have a positive impact on the world is to step outside, and do your best to help one person today. You don’t need to save the world, as a matter of fact, if that’s your goal. You will fail. You don’t need the best at everything. But you can be exactly what someone needs you to be today. That’s enough. Trust me, to the person that you are helping; you are more than enough as you are. You are all they need you to be in this moment right now. So don’t try to live in the grand, live in the now, in the day to day where the rest of us are, where people need you. Because you can be very helpful exactly where you are.