"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
-Viktor E. Frankl
Our website’s March article of the month features a wonderful story about a social enterprise named First Book. Their organization provides tens of millions of books a year to the underserved by taking contributions from publishers and then charging modest shipping charges to send them on to qualified organizations. First Book makes enough from modest shipping charges to keep the organization going and growing.
"This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty."
Comment: Like so many books I share, this was recommended to me by a reader in response to a blog post about time. Friedman has a string of best sellers including “The World Is Flat” and has become known as (what he calls) an “explanatory journalist; a translator from English to English”. Here he takes complex issues such as technology and climate change and does two things that were helpful to me:
I asked the business owner who was lamenting the challenges of being an entrepreneur, "Who decides what you do in a day?". He answered, "me, of course".
Thanks to friend, Ron DeMattia, for passing this great interview onto me, on to you. Peace.
