Are you making a dent in the universe?

Reading Jason Fried’s New York Times Bestseller, Rework, he said something that really resonated me in his chapter, ‘Make a dent in the universe.’

To do great work, you need to feel that that you’re making a difference. That you’re putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you are part of something important.

That doesn’t mean you need to find a cure a for cancer. It’s just that your efforts need to feel valuable. You want your customers to say, “This makes my life better.” You want to feel that if you stopped doing what you do, people would notice.

You should feel an urgency about this too. You don’t have forever. This is your life’s work. Do you want to build just another me-to product or do you wan to shake things up? What is your legacy. Don’t sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don’t think it takes a huge team to make that difference either.

You’d have to be lifeless for Fried’s words not to get your juices going. Who wouldn’t wouldn’t to work on something that’s really making a difference?

The goal of LexBlog is to improve the lives of legal professionals. I want lawyers using our solutions and services to be able to do the type of work they want for the type of clients they want to do it for. Such lawyers will feel better about being a lawyer and better about themselves and their families.

I also want LexBlog, by empowering lawyers to give of themselves to each other and to the public through blogging and other social media, to improve the image of our legal profession. Our legal profession, a very noble one, is far overdue for a facelift.

My team and I, be it not the largest one, can make such a difference. We can make a dent in the universe.

Could we give the world the best we have and get kicked in the teeth by people with smaller people with smaller minds, perhaps. That won’t stop us from giving the best we have anyway.