WE All Have The Power To Make An IMpact

​We are living in a time when many people feel less control of their lives than ever.

They are feeling less powerful.

I get it.

But Seth Godin says, "no one can change everything, but everyone can change something. If you want to live a life of impact, it's in your control to do so."

I think that's the real danger of this time we are living in. There are so many things people want to change, and are feeling powerless to do so, and so they in turn begin believing they can change nothing at all.

I have to remind myself of this a lot lately: I am not here to change the world, I am here to impact it.

Changing the world is often out of my control; impacting the world is NEVER out of my control.

I find myself worrying more each day, what happens when the people with the biggest, most beautiful hearts, hearts I love, who ache to fix everything wrong in the world, begin to feel so defeated by what they can’t change that they stop showing up for what they can?

Big problems often leave us believing there are only big answers. Maybe that is true to a degree. But maybe we need reminded that the seemingly little things we are doing in an ocean of big problems are bigger answers than we believe.

There are mornings I wake up and wonder, what on earth difference is another article going to make? And I am reminded, I don't write to change the world; I write to leave a positive footprint.

I write to help CREATE a path, not change all the paths that are already there. Paths I often have no power to change.

I practiced a webinar with a colleague in another state yesterday that we will present for educators today about trauma sensitive approaches to discipline in schools. I found myself wondering, what's the point? Many of the things we will discuss in the webinar schools are now banned from even talking about at all.

But I am reminded, the teachers we will talk to might not be allowed to go back and talk about what we talk about, but each one of them will have more power to treat their students in a way that will make a bigger and healthier impact on their lives.

It's easy when living in a world that feels out of control to begin believing EVERYTHING is out of my control.

But it is not.

I want to live a life of impact. And as long as I am breathing, I have full control of that one.

We all do.