“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make,” Jane Goodall. We’ve spent enough time talking about how others make us feel and what they think of us.  Our job isn’t to make people see us a certain way, it’s to leave a mark on the world for something greater than we are just like we spoke about last week with the purpose of life being to add value.  It’s to help people do the same.  We’ve seen plenty of examples of people leaving a less than desirable mark on the world and Lord knows there are plenty of people out there whose sole purpose is to get their name out there.  They just want the lights for the sake of having the lights on them.  The thing with image is it’s fleeting.  People are fickle and whether it’s ourselves who change our image or it’s the people who start to feel differently, our image is based on opinion.  The funny thing about opinion is I’d like to say that no one remembers us based on opinion but that’s not entirely true.  They remember us based on the story that gets told and that story is always biased because it’s from one side and we don’t often get to hear the other side so it’s pretty polarizing.  It may seem like I’m talking about trying to control the narrative, but as we spoke about last week, we don’t get to decide that story—that’s true.  So all we can do is make sure we’re doing our best to do something positive.

The world often discounts the little things that make this a better place.  They ignore the magic that exists right at our fingertips and all around.  We’ve gone way too far to the other extreme in this world when it comes to connection—perhaps that’s the wrong way to look at it.  We’ve gone too far to the other extreme of the purpose of connection.  We absolutely need connection and community, we just don’t need to be inundated by every single person every second of the day.  That is way too much for the brain to process.  Compile that with the pressures to survive, thrive, and succeed, and we’ve created a powder keg of tension and suppressed emotion.  And THAT is also the power of connection—to help disperse some of that energy.  So with all that being said, we need to remember that making a difference isn’t all grand gestures and shows—it can literally be something as small as a smile.  It can be making a phone call.  Speaking as someone who has been emotionally saved by a phone call, I will attest to that 100%.  We make our choices in this world and that ripples out to other people.  The truth is all we can do is our best and hope that it matters but if we operate from a place of good intention, that’s enough.  The world knows what’s in our hearts and that’s just vibration.  So elevate and put out our best.