Seth Godin had a really interesting video I watched a while back on Ted (here) about what we really do, he says we are simply changing the world. This is both extremely overwhelming (really, what should I do on Tuesday?) as well as extremely freeing (as it turns out that paperwork I always fill out that I complain is useless, is in fact useless).
We should not allow ourselves to get overwhelmed by the idea that we must change the world because we should tell ourselves each and every morning "I get to change the world". I quit my hourly job yesterday and the best part is that now I GET TO change the world. I get to get out of bed early and post this. I get to read some of the greatest minds in the world for free online for an hour while I drink a french press. I get to go work on the problems of my dance studio and my construction business and not just the in your face, huge fire of the day problems but the problems that when fixed make everything work better afterword and add joy and ease into peoples lives.
It is freeing because we have direction, we have a place to go. I would love to be part of a community where people are trying to change the world and then suddenly here I find myself. So often I have lived with a future mindset that it is all building for something, what I am doing everyday is a groundwork for a life I would like to lead. Yet, here I find myself with only partial groundwork laid and totally satisfied. We should all realize that trying to change the world is freeing, wishing we lived in a changed world is shackles.
So welcome to the movement, is this blog really a movement? Sure it is, and what you do everyday is a movement and I am both excited and privileged to part of it. I hope you feel as privileged to live your life each and every day as I feel simply to be a part of it.
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