You’ve likely heard sometime during your lifetime from someone that hard work, intelligence and perseverance will get you through almost anything.
Granted, those three qualities will do a person well in their job, but there might be two other things that would rank higher on a list of what a person needs to get things done and done right.
Let’s focus on the first one – time.
To be honest in today’s world of instant communication, instant satisfaction and nearly instant food, the one thing people are always talking about needing is more time.
With time being so precious, it’s funny to listen to someone who devotes so much of their time to volunteering for various organizations in that person’s community and hear her equate finding the time to an idea such as having faith.
The person explained if you have faith in what you are doing is helping people and making a difference – no matter what the cause or how difficult it would be to organize yourself – then you will make the time.
For some, maybe that’s all it will take, the realization that finding the time is simply a belief that what you are doing has meaning.
To get others to change their thinking about finding time to volunteer will take something a lot of organizations don’t have – money.
Now, onto the other quality that people need to focus on – commitment.
You are likely thinking that if you find the time, you will be committed to doing whatever it is you found the time for.
Unfortunately, in this busy world, commitment to volunteering takes more than simply showing up.
When you make a commitment to volunteer, it is assumed you want to be involved, want to participate at a level more than blindly following instructions and want to play a part in assisting the organization to grow or continue to provide help to the community it serves.
That usually translates into doing things you may not like to do, may not feel qualified to do or want to do.
However, for the few volunteers that have that faith in what they are doing to find that precious time to give of themselves to make that difference – be it for youth, their community, people in need or any other cause – and follow through with the commitment needed to make changes in their lives so that the lives of others are made better, you all deserve recognition.
Just because you didn’t get an award, doesn’t mean your time and commitment was wasted.
