“Ocasio-Cortez only made one official campaign video – it involved zero consultants, and she wrote the script entirely by herself. When she posted it online, it was shared thousands of times and racked up more than a million views on Facebook and YouTube combined. How many TV ads have that kind of reach? And because people saw their friends and neighbors posting it instead of seeing it between an ad for Celino & Barnes LLP and Six Flags over New Jersey, it likely resonated all the more.”
I think this is my entire argument to you about the business you work in.
You have the tools to change the world for the better. Every day that you go to work and can rest peacefully at its completion… is a good day.
I am not a fan of Booker T. Washington, but he did say one thing that I have always believed and tried to follow:
“Cast down your bucket where you are.”
For me, this has never required me to give up on my long-term goals or to sacrifice my values. It means that if you require sustenance, take what is available. Use what you have to survive and thrive.
The tools at your disposal are many. Please build the world you desire. May wisdom and empathy be your guides.
I include a picture above of buckets from Thomas Jefferson and the Maple Sugar Scheme. With luck, you will have more wisdom and empathy than this person, who, while being lauded as a “Father Of Our Country” actually had mostly black children… which he enslaved!
I’m not clear on how he slept well at night, but aprarently at least one of his slaves and the mother to most of his known children, Sally Hemings, had a lot to do with it.
“Jefferson’s mind never rested. In May of 1791, he and Madison set out on horseback for Vermont, the country’s fourteenth and newest state, with Jefferson’s slave James Heming driving a carriage behind them.”