Even When You Have Nothing, You Have Something

You have amazing resources you don’t even realize. Find and use them.

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I’ve always looked up to my friends who “made it.”

What I loved the most is watching them choose to use their powers for good — like building schools in 3rd world countries, or funding charities that helped address the clean water crisis in Ethiopia, or using their influence to spread awareness and build movements for humanitarian efforts.

To me, it shows these people care about something outside of themselves and are using their resources to support a cause. They’re doing it because they can. And because they can, they realize they must.

A long time ago I had decided when I finally “made it,” I would do the same thing. I would use my power for good.

But recently I’ve come to realize I might have been thinking about it the wrong way.

You see, it’s action that matters, not the scale of the action. The action comes from character. We might see a person writing a huge check for a cause. But in reality, the person is using their resources.

When we think of resources, we might immediately think of money. And it stands to reason that a wealthy person has a lot of money to use for a cause. So we might…