What’s your mantra? For your business, job, or just life?

I hadn’t really thought about it before I was at this crafty happy hour and that was part of the proposed painting project.

And this is what I came up with: “Be a force for good.” Not the most poetic and I couldn’t get it down to one word. I’m OK with it for now. It feels empowering and speaks to something I decided at the end of last year about my business: to really focus on what kinds of organizations I wanted as clients.

And then everything happened in the world — you know *gesturing at everything.*

That makes me all the more committed to using my talents and expertise to put more good into the world by supporting others doing that. It’s an amazing feeling to wake up every morning and be able to say I’m doing just that, in my own little way.

And now it’s on my vision board, sitting right next to me on my desk as I write this. I see it most days.

So, what would yours say?

Photo by Melody Hernandez, whose day job is as founder of Root Reach Rise, Inc.