THE BIGGEST HUMAN TEMPTATION . . . 

is to settle for too little.

In a world full of disasters, one bigger and more overwhelming than the next, it's easy to argue with yourself: 'How can I worry about fill-in-the-blank dream of mine when there are so many awful things happening in the world?' 

We get it. But whatever it is you have been hoping to do: do it. Whatever makes you bright will shine a little bit more light into the world. And the world needs that right now - in fact, the world always needs that. The late poet and philosopher, John O'Donohue, explains this point beautifully in his interview with Krista Tippett from the On Being podcast:
 

Ms. Tippett: I would like to hear about the work you do in corporations and workplaces. It seems to me — in a strange way, some of the greatest intimacy and community we have, or fail to have, is with our colleagues at work. And because we spend so much time at work, and it so defines us, our souls, the light and darkness of our souls is on display at work. And yet, there’s a real question about how do we honor that, in ourselves and in others, and remain professional? I don’t know if that’s what you get at in your work with corporations, but that’s kind of on my mind.

Mr. O’Donohue: I think you’re right. I mean we spend over one-third of our lives, actually, in the workplace. And one of the loneliest things you can find is somebody who is in the wrong kind of work, who shouldn’t be doing what they are doing, but should be doing something else and haven’t the courage to get up and leave it and make a new possibility for themselves. But it’s lovely when you find someone at work who’s doing exactly what they dreamed they should be doing and whose work is an expression of their inner gift. And in witnessing to that gift and bringing it out, they actually provide an incredible service to us all. And I think you see that the gifts that are given to us as individuals are not for us alone, or for our own self-improvement, but they are actually for the community and to be offered. And I think that this is where leadership comes in at work. And that’s why I think good, wise leadership will be attuned to the vitality of a true ethos and helping to establish it.

 
To shining bright,

Taylor & Dorothy
Co-Founders, Good Food Jobs