I’m sitting here at my desk and it is 10am on a Monday morning. I’m at home because I am looking for a new job. And I’ve been wondering what I will look for in my new job. What’s important to me right now. Am I driven by the money and setting up my future? Am I driven by what I really want to do? Do I care to work again for a bank where really all my hard work serves only to make their share price go up and make some senior executives very rich? Or do I care to do something that I may well enjoy more but I’ll be doing it more for the love than the money and there will be an opportunity cost right at this point of my life when I have a pretty good earning potential.

And then this comes along ! Ahhh – perspective …

Making a difference. Doing my best to leave the world a better place because I was here.
Realising I’ve done everything I’ve wanted and have got everything I’ve wanted. Realising I have so much and am so blessed, so fortunate, so lucky. Realising there are so many living in extreme poverty, so many hurting, so many suffering, so many who need good people to rise up and help them because as much as they’d like to they just can’t.

So in tribute to World Humanitarian Day 2012 – 1 billion people taking action for each other – be inspired to leave your mark too … because I am.