My older son, Nathan, pleasantly reminded me of this inspiring thought when he quoted me on his radio program last week. He claims I told him, “If you doing good work, you are going to ask for help – if you’re doing great work, people are going to ask how they can help.”

In our day-to-day work and lives, we ordinarily have to do good things and do them as well as possible. There’s nothing wrong with being ordinary but this conversation is about being extraordinary in your career and in your leadership.

If you’re up to doing something extraordinary – something that you are willing to talk about that will make a difference for more people than you can imagine - you are likely to hear people say to you, “That’s exciting. How can I help?”

For example, in the summer of 2014, television anchor Matt Lauer and golf legend Greg Norman created the Ice Bucket Challenge as a way to raise awareness and money for the ALS Association. ALS, also known as “Lou Gherig’s Disease,” is a degenerative nervous condition that impacts mobility and breathing and is often fatal. While the Ice Bucket Challenge met with some cultural criticism, the “ALS association announced that at the end of August 2014, the Ice Bucket Challenge had raised over $100 million, which is a 3,500% increase compared to the $2.8 million they had raised during the same period in 2013.” That’s 35 times more money!

Another example is the current Bernie Sanders campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination, which among other points of political merit also highlights his resistance to super-PAC contributions. It’s outstanding that Mr. Sanders is only counting on a grass-roots effort of donations from individual supporters rather than go the route of other candidates who lean on big businesses and in today’s political environment have been cause of an erosion of trust in government among millennial voters.

With regard to your leadership, can you create a bigger mission and goal that will inspire people? The more you speak about an initiative that will make a difference for a lot people, the more people will become engaged and want to participate in seeing your vision fulfilled, and thereby it will make a greater difference. Can you see how you can inspire more energy, innovation and productivity from people if you play a bigger game that has a greater impact on more people’s lives?

This is one of the hallmarks of great leadership. In invite you to stay committed to being inspiring, developing yourself and others as great leaders and being a source of outstanding, fulfilling careers – including your own!

So, how about you? What are you up to that if you expand your goal and make it bigger, bolder and more impactful for a larger number of people, you will find that the people you need are going to get inspired to offer more help.