He gave me a mission at the beginning of this year, and it was to be completed by December 2009. I looked at him like he was crazy.
Me: “How am I supposed to do that?”
Him: “I’m not worried. You’ll make it happen”
Me: “o_O Aight… but…”Funnily (and oddly) enough, due to a series of circumstances, I accomplished this mission about 7 months into the year, and even I’m shocked. How did THAT happen? But it did.
I dream big at times, but it’s good to know that others dream bigger for me.
Oh, and yesterday’s Extraordinary check? His response was: “This is all very good, and I think you’ve done really well (and you know I won’t just say that). So, well done! But in the spirit of always looking forward, so what’s next now? As you look out over the next 12 - 18 months where do you want to take all this?”
I haven't responded to his email yet because I still don't have an answer.
By the way, his mission for me was to get on the Board of Directors of an organization. I’m now on the Board of Director’s of a 21-year HIV/AIDS organization in Chicago (Chicago Women's AIDS Project), on the Advisory Board of a philanthropy fundraiser website (GiveForward.org), and on the Blogger’s Advisory Committee of a huge 20-yr old international nonprofit organization (Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation). Plus I’m incorporating my own national nonprofit organization as we speak (The Red Pump Project).
Methinks I’m on the road out of mediocrity. I’m trying to be extraordinary in a sub-par world. I have to leave my footprints in the sand so they won’t get washed away when I'm no longer here.
