Nobody is small enough to not have an impact.
I heard this sentence yesterday from the leader of an organisation that aims to solve one of the biggest challenges in our world.
Before the significant challenges of humanity, such as climate change, inequality, human rights and so on, it’s easy to feel powerless. I often feel powerless.
These days, I’m listening to leaders committed to changing the world, dedicating their lives to higher causes. In the beginning, I felt small. But then, the more I listened to them, I realised two things. Before being leaders, innovators or changemakers, they are human beings like you and me. They are not cut from different cloth. Their superpower is being human. A power that we all have.
The second thing is that every choice, every action, albeit small, counts. It may not seem so at the moment, but it counts. It’s natural to think that significant shifts in the history of humanity are the result of a single massive event. But in reality, they are the compound effect of many small choices and actions. Because it is the last drop that makes the cup run over, but all the drops before are the ones that filled the cup.