Are You Mindful Of The Footprints You Leave Behind?

by Andrew Grant

What's a footprint? An outline or indentation created by pressing the foot on a surface, such as a step in wet sand or a muddy print left by a shoe.

But you knew that. What's easy to forget is that everything we do leaves behind a mark of some kind. We can get caught up in the day-to-day running around and we forget how our individual actions—no matter how small—are leaving a mark. Every action we take in our daily lives is either helping to improve – or damage – the quality of the planet.

Could we have an impact as soft as a feather? If our individual choices were made for a global bottom line—instead of a personal bottom line—then the results from our decisions would begin to leave less of a footprint.

We don’t live in a perfect world, but we can each do our part to be responsible for the small piece of that imperfect world over which we do have some control. This planet has so many resources to offer, or to abuse. We have an opportunity each and every day to treat the planet as a little slice of heaven, or hell. What type of footprints are you leaving behind in your daily walk through life?