What does it mean to be a difference-maker?

Welcome to Creative on Purpose, a show sharing insights and inspiration about the art of encore living. Define the difference only you can make in the second half of life and craft it into a fulfilling endeavor that helps you build identity, forge meaning, and make things better. I'm Scott Perry, Encore Life Coach and Chief Difference Maker at Creative on Purpose. Today is a Best of the Blog episode, bite-sized broadcasts that share principles and practices to help you see, step into, stay in, and share your power to make a difference doing work that matters with people you care about. Today we continue this series by answering the question, what does it mean to be a difference maker? Ready? Let's go. What does it mean to be a difference maker? For people like us, being a difference maker means being someone who leans in and levels up in endeavors that enhance the lives of others. Making things better, serving, doing the work, living your legacy, being creative on purpose. To be a difference maker is to pursue excellence in yourself and your craft while cultivating the same in others. Developing your potential and delivering on your promise by engaging in meaningful efforts done with and for others. What does it take to make a difference? Doing things differently, of course. What got you where you are won't get you where you want to go. To continue flying higher in your enterprise requires breaking the status quo created by yesterday's accomplishments so that you can step into tomorrow's possibility. Difference makers seek the edges of what's now and set their aim on what's next. They see the silver linings in challenges and find opportunities in every obstacle, all the while keeping in mind what the change they seek to make is for. To be a difference maker is to set every goal with intention, create every strategy with integrity, and execute every tactic with consideration. Outcomes are always uncertain. The quality of your effort is the reward. Making a difference isn't for everybody, but people like us can't imagine living and working any other way. Ready to make a difference? Be a difference maker. Define your next endeavor and let's go. Thanks for tuning in. We appreciate you lending us your valuable time and attention and hope today's broadcast motivates you to take a bolder step into possibility, developing your potential and living your legacy. To keep go-go going with principles and practices like the ones shared in today's episode, visit creativeonpurpose.com and sign up for our weekly newsletter. If you're watching where you can leave a comment, please share a question, lesson, or takeaway from this conversation. If you're listening to this as a podcast, please leave a 5-star review. Now take the insight and inspiration from today's show and start flying higher in the difference only you can make. It's time to be creative on purpose.