Maintaining personal worth and feeling fulfilled is a daily pursuit. And since it’s pretty normal to question from time to time whether we really make a difference, here’s an exercise to help you recognize and appreciate your value:
Once a day, ask yourself how another person, a cause, an initiative, an issue was improved by your actions. Did you give someone directions? Did you retrieve and return an item that someone walking in front of you dropped? Did you squelch a false rumor circulating throughout your office? Did you assist a client through a particularly rough patch they’re having? Then, spend 30 seconds tops each day telling yourself that you do indeed make a difference in any number of ways.
Do this every day, and by the end of the week you will have made a big difference; by the end of the month a huge difference and by the end of a year, you will be someone confident in how much you count – if not well before then.
You do count and you do make a difference. The thing is, like me, you just may not think about it enough.
Take a few seconds each day to appreciate it, and please feel free to share some of your successes with me. And I’ll do the same with you.
