I had a goal when I started raising money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee. I had a rather large goal!! How did I determine that goal?
God said, GO BIG!! One time, while I was campaigning to raise the $100,000, I became full of fear. I thought to myself, the goal is to big and we will try to raise only $5,000. That did not last long!! I HAD to change it back!! I could barely sleep until I mentally decided to GO BIG and fixed my web site to, once again, read $100,000!!
How was I was going to raise $100,000? Had I EVER raised money for charity before? NO!! I had no idea how to do any of Journey to Change!! I wasn’t going to let that stand in my way!!
In the beginning, when the donations would trickle in, I would often sit and ask God, “Why am I doing this? What if I can’t raise that much money? What if I fail?” Often times, I would get a feeling inside and it was like God answered my questions, “I asked you to. It’s not up to you to raise the money, just to do the campaigning. You can not fail if you try!!”
I contacted local businesses and asked them to donate. I asked my friends to donate. I asked my friends to ask their friends to donate. I asked people in the world of Facebook to donate. I created a web site and a link to donate. I had T-Shirts made, sold them and donated the money. We are still having a fund raising celebration on August 20th to raise money!!
Did I reach my goal? NOT EVEN CLOSE!! We have raised $1,630.00 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee, so far. That’s a ton less then what I expected!! Do I feel like I failed? I did for a while. Then I realized, I did my part. I worked hard to train my body for the Journey!! I paid to have my motorcycle in top running condition!! I didn’t sleep many many many nights, campaigning on Facebook and thinking of new ways to create awareness of what I was doing!! I mailed out 5,000 flyers to all the Harley-Davidson dealerships, all over the world, asking for help to get the word out!! I contacted media all over America, requesting help!! THEN, I had to surrender. I could not control what others did, I had to trust that God was in charge and we would raise what we were suppose to.
I’m hoping that our fund raiser this weekend, will bring in more donations and I’m still hoping that people will continue to donate at my web site!! If we each donate $10.00, ask our friends to donate $10.00, have them ask their friends to donate $10.00, we CAN reach our goal.
The one thing I’m sure of, I can’t do this alone!! I need each and every one of you to help!!
