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It Starts with One Small Step
Written By: Jane Jerry | Issue: 2018/09 - September
There’s no question that when you’re a candy maker you’re a pretty popular guy and you’re really busy.
In Jerry Moore’s case, you’re extremely busy because you also have a
very involved-in-the-community-wife, four children, and you’re President of the Rotary Club of Highlands. How could you possibly have any time left over to “Be
the Inspiration?!”
That’s Rotary International’s 2018 theme.
“Sometimes we all get overwhelmed by really big ideas – like curing cancer or ending poverty,” Moore reflected. “But inspiring others starts with the small things. Things we can all do. Like I tell my kids: ‘Every day pick up one piece of trash. Just one.’ So in my family that’s six pieces of trash every day. In a month that’s 183 pieces of trash – in a year over 2,000 – five years, 10,000. You get the point! And that’s a lot of trash picked up by just my family. And if each of us work together to inspire others that makes a
huge difference.
“I think about teachers at Highlands School and how so many of them could be off making big bucks, but they stay here making a difference, one child at a time in our own community. And I think about the members of Rotary and how they inspire others through their work in nonprofit organizations. And I think about the Rotary Club as a whole – ours is only one club out of 33,000 in the world – but put it all together and we are on the verge of eradicating polio!
“It all started with one small step. That’s how I think we can be an inspiration!”
