Day #65

Being Greta

Reading about Greta Thunberg at the COP26 Climate Summit this week makes me wonder about how much one person can achieve in their lifetime: how many ideas can you have, how many lives can you touch?

But perhaps that thinking is a learnt behaviour - to think ‘more’, ‘bigger’, ‘larger’. Perhaps our success can be equally valid when measured as less.

Perhaps it’s more important to have the right impact locally than to create waves globally?

Use your sixty seconds today to ask yourself where you create ripples: your local community, your family, your friend group, your followers or employees, the members of your clubs and societies, or strangers across the internet?

Where do you feel most connected, and where is your impact most important, valued, or valuable?

As ever with Social Leadership, there is no one ‘correct’ answer, but rather many concurrently true ones. The trick is to articulate your reality, and ask yourself how comfortable you are with what you say.

All of us can be swept along by circumstance: the trick is to actively curate your actions, with a view to having the impact you seek.