Imagine a swimming pool in front of you. You are first to arrive. You lower yourself into the pool. At first the glassy water is disrupted by some ripples. As you start to swim these become small waves right to sides of the pool. You have had quite an impact on that water!

This applies whether you are Michael Phelps or a leisure swimmer.

Now think about this in terms of  what you do generally.  In your “pool” how far does your influence reach? Of course using the swimming pool analagy the answer should be right to the edges. But is it? Have you decided that influencing is limited to the “Michael Phelps” in your pool and what can you do now to change that?

Then  after a while, as other swimmers join you you can no longer identify your waves – they are now blended with the others. But that does not stop you swimming does it? Unless another swimmer is splashing about and making the water round them unpleasant ( and think about that in terms of your current situation …)  we have all learned to work with the others and those combined waves  still reach the edges.

In your world who could you co-operate with combine your waves?

And a final thought…what if you decided  remove the boundaries of the pool and decide to swim in the ocean?