This is the year when you need to make a difference in your life and the lives of others. It’s time for you to take the challenge!

What exactly is ‘the Challenge’?

It’s anything that is difficult for you. If it wasn’t difficult then it wouldn’t be a challenge!

It’s something that pushes you to the very edge of believing you can do it. Something that excites you, but scares you at the same time. Something that you know will take your very best effort to accomplish. It’s a challenge that you – and you alone – can face. And during the journey you’ll learn so much about yourself and what you can accomplish.

Just don’t give up!

Especially don’t give up before you even start. Sometimes we don’t even take on a significant challenge in our lives because of fear. We talk ourselves out of taking the challenge before we even start. It’s a fear of fear. It’s a fear of failure. And we don’t even try, and we give up. We can do better. In order to reach our potential, we MUST do better. We need to overcome fear, especially those fears that hold us back from creating wonderful things.

To take the challenge is also to not give up in difficult situations once you have commenced. Be strong in tough moments. Know when you change your strategy, when to follow your intuition and when to alter what you’re doing. But that’s not giving up, that’s being smart.

Just don’t change strategy or course because of a little competition or difficulty. What we can conceive, we truly can achieve.

You may already have a particular challenge in mind that you want to take on, head on. Don’t put it on your to-do list for tomorrow – start it today. Right now. Because the more we put it off, the more opportunity we give for fear to creep in. Take the challenge and take it now.

Make A Difference

The challenge to make a difference in the world can seem overwhelmingly large. When we think of all the need, the suffering and the cries for help throughout the world, it is indeed too much for one person to tackle alone. But if thousands of people, just like you and just like me started by doing something, then we could start to see the ripple effect of taking on the challenge to make a difference in the world. And through thousands and thousands of acts of making a difference, the effect would be noticeable.

Each of us has ideas, experiences and contacts that will make our contribution to the ‘make a difference movement’ purely unique. Perhaps yours is in starting a charity. Perhaps it is in fundraising. Perhaps it is in teaching or educating or inspiring others. Perhaps it starts at home by treating your family in a more positive uplifting way.

For us this year we’ve decided to take the challenge in a way we never have before. We’re going to combine the challenge of running a profitable and successful business, with the challenge of making a difference in social and charitable causes.

The first phase of our challenge is the project SchoolBuy.com.au – a website to benefit schools in raising thousands of dollars to improve the quality of their educational and sporting resources. Our schools in Australia are under resourced and under funded and we can make a difference. We’ll help the next generation coming through to be more ready and able to take on their own challenges.

SchoolBuy requires the collaboration of school communities, the general public and high profile brands willing to donate a portion of profits from sales of all goods that they sell online. SchoolBuy brings these parties together and facilitates the fundraising. We want to help hundreds of schools raise funds in the coming year.

The second phase of our challenge is to do the same, but for charities. CharityBuy.com.au is the name of the project. We’ll help charities to engage with their supporters and the Australian community in ways they have never been able to before. We’ll help them raises thousands of dollars to further their important charitable work.

We wish you the best of success in taking the challenge, starting today. We’re on the same path ourselves! We look forward to seeing you and hearing from you along the way.