Footprinting everywhere

 

Have you ever listened to the questions: "Why are you working so late? Why are you making an effort in your studies? Why are you investing so much time on this project?. Fourteen years ago, one of my ex-bosses and I were traveling by plane from Armenia to Ibague; it seemed that he never took a rest during the entire day. Even when we were flying, he barely stopped calling by his phone, talking about his business.

Let's keep in mind the following: That was my first month on that job, so I might have been ignoring what it could be the motivation from my ex-boss for making that effort every day on his duties. A few days later, I found out he always had dreamt about establishing a betting network across the country. 6 years later, he made it.

Since that day, I could not bind that behavior to a reasonable argument. I mean, it was not possible to spend so much time on getting power and money. Yeah, that was insane, until I heard from a teacher the following question and its respective answer: 

Why do you start a project? You start and complete a project for leaving your footprints over society.

There are many ways for representing our footprints over the people. 

One of those is when you feel useful. Let's be honest, most of people love to be successful in their lives. When everyone achieves a goal, his or her mind gets fully charged with too much confidence. Being a successful person is a behavior that must be spread over people because models are the best way to teach something.

Another one could be when you create a better world: If you finish your project and you start to see a meaningful change in our world, you can say that this feeling is coming proudly from your efforts. That means that you are leaving a legacy for the next generations. In that case, you do not have to be selfish if anyone helped you with that goal. sharing your recognition makes meaningful your cause.

The the last one is when you are proud of your values. We must be clear that there are so many people grateful for their values. When they create something new, this represents those values, and also it is generating a kind of empathy. Here, we could say that you are using your personal signature on everything you do.

What must you do to achieve your purposes?

 On the one hand, you have the time. For every goal you might want to achieve you must do it on a previously defined time interval. If you don't focus on that, the related dream will never come true.

On the other hand, you have the resources. Even if I sound kind of materialist, it is mandatory to have some financial and human resources if you want to get a result from your efforts. Of course, If you do not administer them in a conscient way, you are not going to get the desired result.

Finally, You should never miss the expected quality level on your project, no matter how long it takes and how complex it could be to achieve that. Remember, the stronger you stomp your foot on the sand, the deeper and harder to erase your footprint will be.