Change Yourself And Change The World

Most of us can see that the world is in trouble and usually we like to see other people and things change to make it better. However, it’s pretty hard to change other people. We have enough difficulty changing ourselves, even when we would like to do it. Still, change isn’t so bad and it’s not all that hard to do when a person understands how change happens and what it takes to accomplish it. The whole world has been continually changing since the very beginning, but it has been taking place very slowly. That’s part of the secret of change. It happens best very slowly over time… and if we were to look at “a result” down the road we would see that there was a kind of destination or end result to all that very gradual change. These days, most of us would like immediate results. We work and play at a fast pace and we have gotten used to immediate gratification. We go one way and then we go another. We do something for awhile and then we stop and do something else. That’s probably part of the reason we have difficulty taking charge of change and accomplishing the kinds of change we desire. Who is perfect and who doesn’t need to and want to change in some way? But how many of us get those “new years resolutions” carried out? Well, all of us are meant to change and change we do… sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. What is truly powerful is when we can take control of change – change ourselves in some admirable way -- and honestly function better for the world as we know it. The ripples of that “controlled change” will have a gigantic impact on unimaginable numbers of people and things in our world. We just need to believe it and begin to consciously act to make it happen. Yes, you and I have the power to change the world!