Hopefully, part of your agreement with life involves improving parts of your community that need help.
One of the best ways to positively impact your community is by showing people (of all ages) how to get involved in it.
By helping them understand how a particular community works, who the key players are, and what the current processes are, they’ll be able to see which parts are effective and which parts aren’t.
Understanding those things will help them to see how they can help continue moving the good parts forward and fix the bad ones.
Lead by example, and encourage others to get out into the highways and byways of the community and become an excited part of it.
Whether it’s through traditional ways or through creative ways, positively impacting your community is always a good thing.
“Fresh eyes” will see things differently than eyes that have looked at the same situation for a long time.
Infusing your community with “new blood” will also invigorate other people to stay involved and improve at multiple levels.
It’s true that the people who are involved in the community in one way or another are people who really care.
If they didn’t care, they wouldn’t be involved.
A way to help others care is to help them see a need.
At first, you may have to point out some needs to them (but probably not, since many needs are obvious).
In time, they’ll see other needs on their own.
Once they see a need and have a desire to do something about it, help them design a plan of action.
Action of some sort is necessary to convert their good intentions into positive changes.
Their plan of action needs to include both short-range and long-range goals.
Then, help them get to work.
Rolling up your sleeves alongside them will help them see that your own desire to positively impact the community is as real as theirs is.
Together, your combined efforts will be amazing!
MARTY REEP
Author, Motivational Speaker
· American Marty Reep is the author of more than 20 books on Amazon and Scribd. He tries to motivate people to achieve their full potential and finds humor in the crazy things that happen every day. Marty has offered to contribute this weekly column in the Sunday Star to encourage Solomon Islanders to rise to their full potential.
