What I’m reflecting on as we wrap the week: How this all started!

Friday Morning Reflection #1

From time to time, I’ll text or send emails to myself when something comes to mind that seems especially important or there’s an idea that I want to come back to. And sometimes I’ll repeatedly self-reply to one of those messages to create a string of ideas over time.

I was looking back at a thread with the subject “Riffing thoughts” that I started in November and found this:

Think big. Start small. Act now. Measure results.

When I wrote these few words, I didn’t know where they would lead or how I’d act on them. But I felt compelled to write them down in the moment.

In retrospect, it’s clear that - quite unintentionally - I was surfacing into consciousness my personal philosophy of how to be an agent for positive change.

It’s the thesis that led me to create Do Good by Doing Better and my podcast here on Substack.

That’s not the whole story of cour…