Leadership Of Choice — Seemingly Insignificant Acts Bearing Significant Impacts
Living in a competitive world, having access to the internet — with virtually unlimited connective potential, scrolling Facebook, Insta, and Twitters’ neverending feeds, almost every idea and piece of knowledge is accessible in a matter of seconds. Which has made us believe that the world already has everything for us, and we complain if we do not immediately get it. On the other hand, we want to live a “Life of Purpose” and “Make an Impact” but are not willing to put in “hard work”, and think of leadership as “Something very big”.
Both of these extremes have developed a new “Mindset” — where most of us are in continuous ambiguity and confusion. Making an impact is amazing and is worth enough but because we are so focused on making a bigger impact, we do not realize the significance of small acts that we do every day. These small acts spread the lesson of kindness and compassion, and hold an impact within itself. I recently discovered, that those small acts of kindness shape our personality and lead us towards a better version of ourselves. As Morgan Freeman says:
How do we change the world? By one act of kindness at a time
But how should one start doing so?? Where to begin?? To understand this, here is a little story of “Fixing My Sisters’ Sewing Machine”.
I was setting in my parents' room, watching this course on “Amal Teachable” where I had to carry out an activity of “Fixing stuff around yourself”. I was looking around for something to fix and suddenly noticed the “Sewing machine” which was out of order.
It was a manual hand-operated machine which was difficult for my sister to operate, I disassembled the manual handle, utilized a spare electric motor by assembling its parts, and installed it to operate the machine on electricity.
At first, I was not sure if I could do it but after fixing it, I felt satisfaction watching my sister comfortably using it. I would have done it by a mechanic some other day but this activity encouraged me to do it immediately myself. Just like this, I’ve started taking initiatives for other household and personal tasks and have noticed this complete mind shift from procrastination to being doing things.
I see such problems as opportunities to take responsibility, by creating comfort for others, and show kindness. It’s different and is satisfactory. I see myself growing from deep inside me and hopefully will keep this habit of continuous improvement.
If you feel that you can do such small acts of kindness that bear covert significance, do it now. Do not wait for later, you may miss on this impulse of doing something.
