“We are not here to prove. We are here to improve.”

I have no idea is Steve Jobs ever really said that, but it was sent out on @LegendSteveJobs, a Twitter account that touts “Great inspirational tweets... #RIPSteveJobs.”

Whether the maverick innovator, businessman, flawed human and great mind behind Apple uttered these words in life, they fit his spirit.

It is that spirit I hope we channeled in producing the Pensacola Metro Report, an update of a project I was part of 2001.

It is hitting the streets today, included in the print run of the Sunday Pensacola News Journal. It is splashing to life online at StuderInstitute.com as well, where even more content related to the report will reside.

Read it -- maybe not all at once -- but read it. And do something with it.

Volunteer in a school. Help a preschooler learn to read. Pay your employees a dollar or two more an hour. Support an after-school child care program that is grounded in educational principles.

Because those things matter.

If you are the spiritual kind, remember that our faith traditions call us to serve others as proof we have heard what the Good Book tells us.

If you believe in karma, remember that what we put into the universe is what the universe brings back to us. Or as The Beatles said, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

What we put into the people in our lives, what we put into ourselves, what we put into our community impacts the kind of community we create in return.

If we don’t like what we see in our community, we have the power -- and the obligation -- to change it.

We are not here to prove. We are here to improve.

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