Destined for Greatness

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill

When I was a little girl, I enjoyed a series of biographies on famous people. These books were aimed at children and each one had an emphasis on the subject's childhood. That part caused me to identify with people like Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield and Liliuokalani, Young Hawaiian Queen. Why, they were little girls once, just like me! It was the mid-1960's and while the women's movement was picking up speed, it had not quite reached my elementary school. So the idea of a woman doing something awesome was a novel concept, and very exciting to me.

Not all of us will find our names in a history book, not all of us live high-profile lives, not all of us do things of great magnitude. But we all can do what we do in a great way. Anything that is worth doing, that we are expending our time and energy on, is worth doing well. We can do small things in a great way.

Isn't life really made up of a zillion small things anyway? It's all those little things that at the time seem insignificant that add up to a life either wasted or a life well-lived.

Susan