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Either write something worth reading, or be someone worth writing about
Actually, the original Ben Franklin quote is: Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing (about). Leave the world a better place than it was before you were born, because of your actions.
I didn’t think it was in me… so I settled for something small. I decided to plant a tree every year… there are too few trees in my humble but accurate opinion.
Then my landlord cut them, not all but most… and I got disheartened.
Luckily this happened around the time when I discovered that I have a unique talent in coaching: I can feel what you feel, and that is very useful: you can’t fake me, sweet talk me, etc.
So I redirected my energies to make a difference, to do something worth writing about, to my coaching and teaching.
Same principle, only the size of the action is different.
If we all lived by this principle, (Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing about) the world wouldn’t be the way the world is.