Don’t talk about what needs to be done—do something
As you read this, you might conclude that this statement is so practical that it sounds common, and therefore could be considered just drivel.
But if you take a candid look at the flow of our present national conversation, you will discover that we have replaced taking action with a series of debates and dare I say, Town Halls, where we discuss all the life out of every idea, until it’s pronounced dead on arrival.
Yes, we’ve begun to believe that thinking, wishing, praying and conversing is equivalent to doing something.
How about a powerful piece of advice?
No problem is solvable—that’s why we’ve dubbed it a problem.
If we sit around and discuss our impasses and struggles, we will only grow more cynical and therefore, open the door to a stubborn spirit telling us we’ve done enough.
For instance, if the dilemma in the world is starvation, then find one family in your community which needs groceries and take over a few every week.
Discussing world poverty will provide no relief for the pangs of hunger.
But if you move out on what you have, there will be one family who benefits because you did something.
Likewise, if you believe that millennials are spending too much time on social media, then simply offer a millennial the opportunity to join into something other than download and scan.
Stop stumbling over the problem and start studying the elements that cause it.
Pick one problem and do something to address it.
You can yell all you want about gun violence or insist on the need for gun control, but it’s much more intelligent to take a group of kids at your church or in your neighborhood and present the pros and cons of what a gun is and what a gun can do.
The first step to removing yourself from being a clown is to take off the makeup.
If you look like everybody else, then you are everybody else.
So don’t discuss what the problems are. Instead, do something.
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