{"id":9857,"date":"2014-08-07T15:07:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2014-08-07T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:57:27","slug":"your-contribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/08\/07\/your-contribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Contribution"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hand-Nigeria-115\"<\/a><\/h6>\n
Casting about for something to illustrate this, like “a helping hand,” all I could find was a drawing I did in Nigeria in ’03 . . . a place where I hope I made a contribution.<\/h6>\n

Taking a break from the recent theme of my parents’ history, today’s thoughts have to do with you.<\/p>\n

Specifically, your contribution. The fact that you have one, and that contributing it matters.<\/p>\n

What is it that you do, that only you can do?<\/p>\n

Think about it.<\/p>\n

We live not just for ourselves. Even if our work is done in a solitary way, in the end it’s for a wider world.<\/p>\n

What is it\u00a0you would do even if no one paid you for\u00a0it . . . if no one asked you do to it?<\/p>\n

In many ways it’s why we were born. Seeing our unique set of gifts as contribution gives us reason for being.<\/p>\n

Another thing: I learned a long time ago that the one who sees a\u00a0need most clearly is almost always the one to address it. Not the nebulous “they.”\u00a0They\u00a0will never see it. They will never do it. Not right.<\/p>\n

Further: Making our unique contribution brings\u00a0the best out in us. We abandon ourselves to whatever it is and have done with debilitating self-consciousness.<\/p>\n

We contribute to a\u00a0higher cause . . . even if for only one person. Even if for only a child.<\/p>\n

So, here’s my challenge for you. Identify your life contribution. If that’s too big, make it just for today.<\/p>\n

State who you’re doing it for.<\/p>\n

Then get on with it.<\/p>\n

The world will be better. And so will you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your gifts are wanted, even needed, to complete all good of the whole. Don’t hold back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9870,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions\/9870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}