What Can I Do?

What Can I Do?

I am convinced that you decided to start reading this piece because you are hungry for impact. Therefore, I would kindly urge you to read previous posts on the series, Making Impact. It will help you to know where we started, and how far we have gone.

Impact makers need to find answers to these questions: 'Who am I?'; 'Where am I from?'; Why am I Here?'; 'What Can I Do?; and 'Where am I Going?'  The focus here is on the question, 'What Can I Do?' You would agree with me that this question bothers on potentials or abilities. 

If I had the privilege of having a personal conversation with you, and in the course of discussion you ask me, 'Christopher, I want to make impact, what can I do? To avoid laying claim to superior knowledge, I would turn the question on you asking, 'Looking around, what are the things that gives you great concern?' I'm sure your peculiarities will come to play here. Few of the things you might mention include: increased environmental pollution; increased population of out-of-school children; increasing cases of sexual molestation; poor service delivery by practitioners; increased in suicide; increased in criminality and terror attack; bribery, corruption and nepotism; grammatical errors in magazines; decreasing moral values; acute shortage of basic amenities; unemployment; compromised clerics, abuse of office; lack of social support, ........

I will not interject; rather I would allow you to exhaust all you have to say on this. My question continues, 'Can things become better than the way they are now?' Being a person hungry for impact, I want to believe your reply would be an emphatic 'Yes!' I continue, 'How can things become better?' By doing things rightly, you possibly reply. All these abnormalities you've mentioned, and many more; can one person address them all? 'Ahh! It's not realistic', you reply. 'Why not, I ask?'  'Of course, we are different. We are different in the way we see, do or are moved by circumstances', you posit. And I put it to you, using your own words, that, that difference in the way we see, do or are moved by circumstances is a function of abilities. That difference is a response to an ability within waiting for expression; and because it is not yet expressed, it is termed 'potential'.

A lot of times you had been amazed yourself at the things you've done. You would never have thought that you could achieve such feat. You would equally agree that those were among your best moments in life. You have the privilege of filling your lives with many of such moments. That's potential; its been there all these while. 

Answer to the question, 'What Can I Do?' could come from many sources. Nonetheless, start with yourself. You, ask yourself, 'What have I done before?'; 'How did I do the things I have done before?'; 'Who have I met before?' 'What was said of the impression I made?'; 'What do I love doing?'; 'What is the thing that readily appeals to my humanity and purpose in life?'; 'What can I do to make the world a better place?'; and 'How can I secure my place in generations to come?'

Now to your question,  'What Can I Do?' I  say, you can do a lot to the degree of identified needs in your environment which particularly resonates with abilities on the inside of you like no other.