Change the world

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.  If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day.  It will give you a small sense of pride, and will encourage you to do another task, and another, and another.  By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.  Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter...

If you want to change the world, start each day with a task completed.  Find someone to help you through life.  Respect everyone.  Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.  But if you take some risks, step up when the times are the toughest,  face down the battles, lift up the downtrodden, and never, ever give up -- if you do these things, the next generation, and the generations that follow, will live  in a world far better than the one we have today.

Former US Navy Admiral William H. McRaven
9th Commander of Special Operations Command from 8/8/2011 to 8/28/2014