Making an Impact

Day in and day out we settle into a routine...Get up, have breakfast, go to work, go home, do "stuff", go to bed...repeat.  As we get older, maybe get married, maybe have kids, we pack more and more in.  Then at some point we stop and say to ourselves, am I having an impact?  Is what I am doing contributing to the greater good?  Are my talents being put to the best use?  The typical next step is to think about getting more involved, volunteering here or there, and finding that thing that makes a difference.  The challenge is that we typically do a lot of "thinking" and not a lot of doing.  Well with this post on Make It Happen, I'm featuring my Uncle, who after retiring a little bit ago, asked him self the same question...but he is doing something about it.

Per his very first blog post my uncle gives a little background on his desire to answer the question "what have I done that is truly fulfilling and rewarding" If you think about that one for a bit, how would you answer it?  Have you done something that is really rewarding and made a difference?  If you have, awesome!  For many, like my uncle, I bet you struggle to find that something that truly has had an impact.  At a point in our life I think everyone desires to feel like they have left a mark and had a positive impact, in some way shape or form.  For my uncle he realized that nothing he came up with really satisfied him...there wasn't that "thing" he could point to and say, "I did that!" So, he did what I think many of us don't do enough of, he took the initiative to find something the might just answer that question...something that he can feel a sense of accomplishment about.  He Made It Happen by signing up for a month long volunteer opportunity in Morocco to help kids with their English and other comprehension skills.  Will it answer his question?  Time will tell if that will satisfy him.  Although I'm pretty sure it will, one thing is for certain, he can say that he tried to Make It Happen.

I encourage you to follow his blog at http://dechew.blogspot.com/ and see how he is having an impact.