Every Little Thing We Do Matters - The Ripple Effect Of Doing Our Work Is Truly Life Changing

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I hope that you guys are doing amazing wherever you are in the world.

My name is Boomshika and I welcome you to my channel.

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Subscribing and commenting on my channel.

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In this video,

I want to speak to you guys about the ripple effect.

A friend of mine and I were having a conversation about impact and about how we have this desire within us as INFJs,

As beings in general,

As human beings,

That we do not want to waste our time on things that are probably not going to lead to anything.

For example,

When we were children,

We were like,

We want to do this,

We want to do that,

We want to do that,

We want to become writers or we want to become actors or musicians.

And our human parents told us that it's probably not a good idea because you're probably not going to make it and you're never going to make any money from it.

It's better to go off to something that's a bit safer and a little bit more secure where you actually know that you're definitely going to get into it,

Definitely going to make money from it and you're definitely going to be able to be successful because of it.

So paths like becoming a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or a computer programmer,

Right?

You know for sure,

Well almost for sure,

If you have the enough intelligence and enough gumption and hardworking skills and things like that,

You're probably going to be able to make it in those fields.

But the problem is that,

You know,

Because we have this thing that we do not want to take something on if it's going to be a waste of time.

The problem is that we don't actually know if it's going to be a waste of time or not,

Right?

We've made these assumptions about these paths.

We made an assumption that if we become a writer,

It's going to be a waste of a path.

Or if we're going to try something,

We're going to try to make an impact,

It's going to be a waste of time because it's probably only going to reach maybe one person or maybe ten people or maybe a hundred people,

Maybe a thousand people at most,

But it's not going to reach the impact that we really want,

Which is a million people,

A trillion people,

You know,

Trillion,

We don't have a trillion people,

A billion people,

Right?

And so we want to reach impact,

We want to do good with the time that we have on this planet.

And if we're not going to do good,

If we're not going to make that impact,

We'd rather do nothing.

Which is really funny to me,

It's kind of ironic that if we're not going to do anything,

If we're not going to make the impact that we want,

Which is a billion people affected by our work,

Then I'm going to do nothing.

I'm not going to pretend,

I'm not even going to bother to do anything.

And I think to myself,

That's a little bit odd because isn't it better to get at ten people or a hundred people rather than doing nothing at all?

Just because you're not going to reach a billion people,

You're going to do zero work,

You're not going to do anything at all?

I mean,

That's a little bit weird.

And it has that kind of thinking,

That kind of black and white thinking is in my head as well.

You know,

I'm like,

Alright,

Well if my videos are not going to reach a billion people,

Then what's the point of me even doing them?

And of course,

I've kind of gotten over that,

But that was my thinking in the beginning when I would do videos and they would reach maybe one person or they would have like maybe twenty views.

And I'd think to myself,

Well that's not enough.

And then I used to think to myself,

Okay fine,

I guess maybe I should just give this up,

Because it's not really reaching the impact or reaching the people that I want to reach,

So I should just give it up.

And that was my thinking and that's what most people do,

Is that we try something or we think we want to try something.

We think,

Actually,

That's the first thing.

We're like,

Okay,

I think I want to do something.

I want to start a podcast or I want to become a vegan activist.

I want to do something.

And so we do that,

We start thinking about it and then we start thinking,

Okay,

So I want to make an impact on a million people.

That's keeping it small.

Sometimes we're like,

Alright,

I want to make an impact for every single person on this planet.

But usually we'll be like,

Alright,

If I can get to a million people with my work,

Then great,

That's my goal.

And we start thinking about it and perhaps we even try something.

Mostly though,

People will just think about it and realize they're not going to get the million people impacted or they're not even going to get to maybe a hundred people or they don't even know how many people they're going to get to and it's not even worth it.

So instead of actually even doing anything,

They won't even lift a finger.

It's all going to be in their heads and they're going to give it up before they even started,

Before they even tried.

And I know because I've done that a billion times in my life where I've done that and I've not even put a smidgen of effort into something and taken the assumption or taking the conclusion that,

Alright,

It's not going to be useful anyways.

It's not going to make the impact that I want to.

So why bother?

And I gave up before I even started.

I gave up before I even started,

Before I even took one action towards that item.

And that is what really kills me because I didn't even try.

I didn't even try it.

I didn't actually even put any effort into it,

Physical effort before dismissing it as something useless.

And I've done that so many times in the past.

So now whenever I have an idea,

My first step is always to try something with it.

If I have an idea that I want to start a podcast on INFJs,

Instead of dreaming about it,

Thinking about it,

Having fantasies about it,

About how many people it's going to reach,

How many people it's not going to reach,

Or it's going to be useless,

It's going to be great,

It's going to be great,

It's going to be useless.

Kind of going back and forth between that.

And I usually literally have those conversations in my head where I'm like,

Yay,

It's going to be awesome,

It's going to reach so many people,

It's going to change people's lives.

No,

It's not going to do anything,

It's going to be completely useless,

It's going to fall flat,

What's the point,

Why do I bother?

So I go back and forth between that in my head.

And before,

When I was younger,

Or in the past,

I would let those thoughts kind of get over me and get into my head and ruin my excitement for the task.

Now I know it's going to happen.

So I know that before that happens,

Before I lose my excitement,

I have to stop.

And I have to do that something,

Whatever it might be.

For example,

If I'm starting a podcast,

I'll just start it.

I won't even think about it.

I won't have this thought,

Oh,

Maybe it won't work out,

Maybe you should,

I'll just start it,

I'll just do it.

And then I'll put it out there.

And then if it happens,

If it has an impact,

Cool.

If it doesn't have an impact,

At least I did it.

At least I tried it and I don't have to think about it,

I don't have to worry about it,

I don't have to dream about it,

I don't have to regret about it.

And so a lot of times,

The impact that your work that you think is going to have is not going to be the impact that you think it's going to have.

So perhaps it will be less of an impact than you imagined.

Perhaps it will be more of an impact than you imagined.

You actually have no idea starting out,

Going into it,

How much impact your work is going to have.

You might touch the lives of a hundred people,

Maybe you'll touch the lives of a thousand people,

Maybe you'll touch the lives of,

I don't know,

A million people,

Right?

But for us,

We have this thing,

Oh,

If it doesn't have the maximum impact possible,

I'm not even going to try it.

But I think we forget the idea of ripple effect,

Right?

And that's the whole reason I wanted to do this video is that yes,

Of course,

A lot of things you're going to have an impact on perhaps 10 people,

Perhaps only one person,

You know,

You might start something gung ho and it ends up only touching the life of one person and then it falls apart.

It's totally fine.

That one person is going to take that effect to their grave,

Obviously,

But also to probably hundred,

A thousand people in their lifetime,

Right?

They're going to be touching this,

That and another person all over their life.

All throughout their life,

They're going to have contact with maybe 500 people,

Maybe a thousand,

You don't actually know.

And through those 500 people,

There's going to be a ripple effect that's going to go and touch every single person's life on this planet,

Right?

I always say this to you guys,

And I really believe it,

Is that if one more person on this planet is happier,

I think that ripple effect of that one person being happier is going to translate into the happiness of thousands of people,

Thousands of people.

That ripple effect is so powerful,

Right?

And so when we are as human beings focusing on our own happiness or that impact that we want,

We're not being selfish because that impact,

Even if it's only on one person,

Even if it's only on that one single human being,

It's still going to result in a ripple effect of affecting thousands,

Thousands and thousands and thousands of people are going to be affected by it because that one person is going to go affect maybe five people in that day.

And then those five people are going to go affect 25 people.

And then those 25 people are going to affect 625 people,

Right?

And so through the exponential effect of all of this,

There's going to be hundreds and thousands of people affected in a matter of days or months or even maybe years.

But as long as that effect is there,

It's going to create that impact that you're looking for.

It's going to have that impact that you're looking for.

It might only start off with that one person.

And of course,

You're not even just,

It's not typical that you're only going to affect one person.

It's probably going to be in the range of hundreds or probably thousands,

Right?

When I first started this YouTube channel,

I did not think that I would have number of subscribers that I have right now.

Even if all of you guys are not listening every single day,

Even if a hundred people are listening every day,

Those hundred people are being affected by these videos.

And in turn,

Those hundred people are affecting thousands of people around them,

Right?

And that's the ripple effect that I'm looking for.

That's the ripple effect.

I don't really want or desire or think about the million people that I'm going to affect because I only want to make sure that I affect those hundred people or a thousand people every day and they will take care of the rest,

Right?

You have to distribute the work a little bit.

Delegate,

You know,

Don't worry about that stuff.

Just delegate your work.

So take care of it that way.

Think about the ripple effect in everything that you do.

Everything that you do has matters and has an effect on people around you,

Right?

In our naivete or in our small narrow-minded thinking,

We think,

Oh,

It's only going to affect a hundred people.

So why bother?

Why should I even try?

Well,

Those hundred people are going to affect thousands of other people through the ripple effect.

And so you have to,

You have to do what you can do.

Every human being on this planet is not going to affect a billion people with their work,

Right?

Every human being on this planet is not going to make major impact,

But even if they're able to impact one or two or 10 people with their work,

That is in itself more powerful than those people who are just sitting around doing nothing because they don't want to just bother with little work like that.

You know,

A lot of people are just sitting around doing nothing because they're like,

Well,

I'm not going to make the impact I want anyway,

So I'm just going to do nothing,

Right?

And that I think is the wrong thing.

If you can even affect just 10 people or one person,

I think it's more powerful than just sitting around doing nothing,

Right?

And that's what I want you guys to do.

I don't want you guys to sit around doing nothing.

I want you to do the work,

Even if it is very,

Has very little impact.

I want you guys to do that work.

It's important to do that work in this world right now.

Okay.

I hope this makes sense to you guys.

I hope that I was able to explain myself to you.

I'm kind of like,

I think I'm all over the place today.

I'm not really articulate.

I think my period is coming.

Anyways,

Hopefully I was able to explain myself to you guys.

And if you guys have any questions at all,

Please message me anytime.

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I shall see you guys next time around.

Bye for now.