You can’t change the past, it just is
Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.
We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.
While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.
People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low. ' We want it to read that we changed the world.
Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.
Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you. " I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No. " "In that case. . . I hope you enjoy disappointment. " We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered.
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.