Without a doubt, what you are doing matters. What you are doing is truly making a tremendous difference in the lives of children in need. Though you may feel exhausted at times, and though you may feel that you are not making an impact, you are changing the life of a child.

For my contemporaries, let's remember to be more introspective, less harsh on ourselves with our follies and less aggrandizing with our accomplishments. Listen, do not compare, connect and remember -- we have a purpose.

I believe we all have power to take those actions and that the every-day actions of "ordinary" people do actually have the potential to be world-changing.

Heather Dune Macadam, Simon Worrall and Jaweed Kaleem join HuffPost Live to explain why the media needs to steer away from "if it bleeds, it leads."