Now and Next

Regardless of our passions, age or experience -  we owe it to ourselves, families, communities and careers to consciously consider what we are doing now that excites us, or brings us joy, or makes a difference.  (Ideally these things will converge.) And with those answers, we must consider how we will invest our time, talent and treasure to insure that what we do next will continue to make a difference to us, those we love and those we aspire to help.

What is a Volunteer?

There are countless descriptive definitions and examples of volunteering.  Volunteers make priceless impact every day.  As I was running this morning, in a volunteer t-shirt, I thought of a simplistic way of depicting what ideal volunteers are:

• Valuable
• Open
• Listening
• Understanding
• Needed
• Talented
• Empathetic
• Energized
• Resource

Thank you to each of you for making such a difference in so very many ways!

Right Size

I wear a small or medium t-shirt, but I would never think of advertising the size I wear. This week, in the airport, I saw a small man sporting a very tight-fitting t-shirt with an XL label plastered across the front. My immediate thought was that he was trying to appear larger than real life. I don't know if he was wearing an ill-fitting child's XL or an adult t-shirt with an actual size tag that didn't match the shirt's front slogan.   Regardless of our size, we all look best in clothes that are actually the right size.  And when we try to appear larger (or smaller) than we are, we miss the chance to be right sized.