You are not your resume

There is always going to be someone more qualified, with more education, with more resources that could do the thing you are about to do.

But none of them see what you see.

Making a difference takes grit, generosity, guts…intangibles that can’t be quantified on LinkedIn or on your permanent record.

There were plenty of others that were more qualified to provide clean water to the world but none of them stepped up. It took a 20-year-old night club promoter to start charity: water.

Jim Ziolkowski was a vagabond before starting buildOn, a non-profit making a difference to youth in inner cities and those without access to education all over the world.

So if you are feeling that you are not good enough to start something that could change things…

Find a new way to measure.