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Welcome to your daily dose of hope, I'm Phyllis Nichols and I'm glad you're here.
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You know when we face big problems, we think small actions or the actions of just an individual
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like me, like you, can feel really meaningless, it can feel like we don't make a difference,
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What does the action of one person really accomplish?
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You know right now there are really significant things happening in the world, things that
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feel really big and they are big and they can make us feel powerless.
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You know, how can one person stop a war or a military action?
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How can one person try and feed people who are going hungry or get medical care to people
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What can one person really do?
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And you know the answer and I'm reminding myself of this every day is more than we think.
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A lot of big challenges are rarely solved all at once, they're solved piece by piece
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through conversations, by making decisions to speak up, by looking at new ideas or new
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Sometimes it's just the action to step forward and say, hey, I want to be part of a solution.
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Small actions change the relationship we have with the problem to it, no longer feels
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like something overwhelming, it feels like something where we can contribute.
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But each time we do something, it reminds us that progress is possible and this reminds
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me of the quote by Margaret Mead as an anthropologist and you probably heard this before but I'm
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going to just read it because I think it's really appropriate for these times.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.
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Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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You know, this reminds us the significant change, almost always comes from dedicated
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local actions rather than some massive immediate consensus.
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Hope isn't always loud, it's not always pushy.
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Sometimes it's the quiet and steady showing up as the next small step.
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Big problems can make small steps feel insignificant but real progress happens one step at a time.
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