My website is not a news website but I just logged on to Facebook few minutes ago and I saw this message by Mark Zuckerberg(Co-Founder and CEO of Facebook) posted on Facebook about three hours ago as I type this.
I just feel I should share it with you since it’s in line with what I preach.
Mark Zuckerberg writes:
Today is Facebook’s 10th anniversary.
It’s been an amazing journey so far, and I’m so grateful to be a part of it. It’s rare to be able to touch so many people’s lives, and I try to remind myself to make the most of every day and have the biggest impact I can.
People often ask if I always knew that Facebook would become what it is today. No way.
I remember getting pizza with my friends one night in college shortly after opening Facebook. I told them I was excited to help connect our school community, but one day someone needed to connect the whole world.
I always thought this was important — giving people the power to share and stay connected, empowering people to build their own communities themselves.
When I reflect on the last 10 years, one question I ask myself is: why were we the ones to build this? We were just students. We had way fewer resources than big companies. If they had focused on this problem, they could have done it.
The only answer I can think of is: we just cared more.
While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections.
We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.
That’s why I’m even more excited about the next ten years than the last. The first ten years were about bootstrapping this network. Now we have the resources to help people across the world solve even bigger and more important problems.
Today, only one-third of the world’s population has access to the internet. In the next decade, we have the opportunity and the responsibility to connect the other two-thirds.
Today, social networks are mostly about sharing moments. In the next decade, they’ll also help you answer questions and solve complex problems.
Today, we have only a few ways to share our experiences. In the next decade, technology will enable us to create many more ways to capture and communicate new kinds of experiences.
It’s been amazing to see how all of you have used our tools to build a real community. You’ve shared the happy moments and the painful ones. You’ve started new families, and kept spread out families connected. You’ve created new services and built small businesses. You’ve helped each other in so many ways.
I’m so grateful to be able to help build these tools for you. I feel a deep responsibility to make the most of my time here and serve you the best I can.
Thank you for letting me be a part of this journey.
That’s the message, My questions to you are:
What’re you doing to help the world?
What do you care about?
Do you have a big dream or you’re just running after how to make money online, offline or just what you want?
The way to get all you want is to forget about them and give what people want to them.
Nobody care about you or what you want but they only care about what you’re to them.
If you become the person that gives them what they want, you will become important to them and they will give you all the good things you never think you wanted.
Nobody cares about Mark Zuckerberg or about what he wants. His family does not care about him or what he wants but here’s what they care about….
They care that he’s a good and honourable member of their family.
The world does not care about him either but we only care that he’s the founder of Facebook to us because we find Facebook useful.
As you can see from Mark Zuckerberg post, Facebook started with a big dream.
What is your own Big Dream?
It may not be about building the next Facebook, Google or the next world biggest oil company.
But, no matter what it is, even if it’s just what solve a problem in your local community or your country.
The question is: What will you contribute to the world because you have lived?
Everybody has a dream. The reason you stop dreaming is because you think it’s not possible.
Lack of resources is not your problem, the problem is that you stopped believing your dreams and you know what?
You can’t do what you don’t believe in.
For me,
I will never stop believing.
Olusola