I am thankful for every opportunity to do good and help others.

Helping gets imagined at the wrong scale. People wait for the meaningful opportunity — the volunteering, the cause — and walk past forty small ones a week because they don't look like enough.

The small ones are what actually reaches people. Covering a shift for someone whose kid is ill. Saying the specific complimentary thing to a colleague instead of merely thinking it. Answering the message from the person nobody's checking on.

None of it feels significant while you're doing it. It routinely is, on the receiving end.

Think of who's having a rough month near you. Do the small obvious thing today rather than the impressive thing eventually.