“Whatever you are aware of, you can care about, whatever you care about you can do something about.”
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
A story to BE moved by
There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and took the infant with them back up into the mountains.
The lowlanders didn’t know how to climb the mountain. They didn’t know any of the trails that the mountain people used, and they didn’t know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep terrain. Even so, they sent out their best party of fighting men to climb the mountain and bring the baby home.
The men tried first one method of climbing and then another. They tried one trail and then another. After several days of effort, however, they had climbed only several hundred feet.
Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, and they prepared to return to their village below. As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby’s mother walking toward them. They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn’t figured out how to climb. They also saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. How could that be?
One man greeted her and said, “We couldn’t climb this mountain. How did you do this when we, the strongest and most able men in the village, couldn’t do it?”
She shrugged her shoulders and said, “It wasn’t your baby.”
Something to DO right now
When you care deeply for something, you will always be able to do more than the people that don’t care. Ultimately, care is taking responsibility.
If you’re not aware of something, it is impossible to care.
If you don’t care, it’s impossible to do anything about the things you don’t care about.
Today, someone you care about to make you aware of a blind spot that you have, then put an action plan together to do something about it.
