Don’t merely collect knowledge and skills. Put them to practical use.
Don’t just spend all your time and energy amassing a large set of tools. Do meaningful, beneficial work with those tools.
It’s great to have skills, capabilities, resources, and connections. But it would be a terrible shame not to deploy them in the service of a worthwhile goal.
Yes, prepare yourself well, align yourself to achieve. Then follow through with the achievement.
Admit to yourself, and to the world, what you care about, what matters to you. Put your love and caring into action, and transform it all into tangible results.
Utilize the potential of all your other skills with the skill of being purposeful. Discover what a great difference you can make, and make it.
— Ralph Marston