“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” Tom Brokaw
As I listened in these non-profit workshops last week about the challenges that non-profits face. You have to admit a business model that relies solely on donations is not optimal? Yet, that is the reality for over 1.9 million non-profit organizations.
At the end of the day, the goal isn’t about making a buck but rather about making a difference for others.
“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”
Tom Brokaw
photo via: baltimore sun
Tomorrow is the big day, Graduation Day. For 18 years of guiding, homework, making lunches, driving and all of the work that goes into being a parent….this is it. Is it over? No. Is it a parental payday? Maybe. To me it is simply another milestone. His first smile, first step, learning to ride his bike, then his driver’s license and now to use those same wheels to head off to college. It is a milestone and like all great milestones it is a celebration of achievement. It is a time to be in the moment with all of the people who helped us get to this moment.
Just like the first smile, the first steps and the first pedal strokes there were more. This will not be the last milestone or celebration of achievement. Like all the wonderful accomplishments, I will cheer, smile, cry and beam with pride. Although my son has earned this moment, it is one for all of us to celebrate.
He can change the world tomorrow. Today his smile is more than enough.
