- If you ever find yourself
thinking, "What's the point of writing / blogging / trying to do [insert project here] because I don't have any 'fans' yet and nobody even cares what I make?"... this one's for you.
It's so easy to feel "invisible" in the midst of
"power-bloggers" with millions of fans and glittering book deals with publishers in NYC, but it's vital to remember that you can have a "smaller" audience and still have a very real and significant impact on people's lives. This is not a woo-woo, ya-ya pep talk. It's the truth.
Because of something that you write, say, or create, you might inspire 1,000 people to sign up for a 5K race and get active for the first time in a
decade... or maybe you will inspire 1 teenage girl to sign up for kickboxing lessons and discover just how strong and powerful she is, instead of starving herself to death in an effort to look "prettier."
Who will you choose to be, today?
The kind of person who chooses not to write or create anything, because "nobody is listening so why bother"?
Or the kind of person who says, "Whether I am improving the life of 1 single human being or 1,000, my work is worth creating."
I hope you will choose the second mindset (and I'm guessing you will, because you're amazing like that).
I hope you will share something that feels good to create (a
text, an email, a blog post, a poem, a painting, a pie baked with love).
I hope you will remember that, in doing so, you are creating a ripple effect of positivity, improving people's lives in a real, tangible way, and there's no telling how far & wide that ripple might extend.
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." —Arthur Ashe