To be Human is to want to make the world a better place and to feel guilty when we don’t try.

As far as we know, these thoughts and feelings are not experienced by any other creature.  It’s how things are and it’s a bitter-sweet thing.  Every day, without exception, we wrestle with this Human condition.

It causes us to take risks and to fail often.  The best leaders of movements toward a better world are those who tell us the whole story: accidental successes, numerous failures, self-doubt and sleepless nights, and the breakthroughs.  There’s no other way.  We cannot be part of making the world better without moving towards this better world ourselves.

An accidental blessing is that we happen to be  in a place and time when we’re asking what it means to be Human.  On the one hand, there are those who see pharmaceutical, technological, and genetical enhancements as the future of what it means to  be Human.   Notwithstanding what is happening in these developments, on the other hand, there are those who feel we’ve just begun to discover the unexplored depths of being Human.

These discoveries involve the more accessible-for-all opening of minds, hearts, and wills, moving us from our little worlds (what Otto Scharmer refers to as the ego-system), to a greater world (Otto Scharmer’s eco-system, from the Greek oikos – the whole house) in which we understand ourselves to be a small but significant part of something very big … and wonderful.

An article passed on to me about young entrepreneurs caught my attention with a comment about how many of these wanted to begin businesses with social good included.  Interesting.  The world is changing around us.

Your relationship with the world, with me, and with your greater Self (what you and I can be as Human) is all changing – it’s simply part of being Human.  You wake up to it every day.  Including today.

So, to offer a question offered by Seth Godin: What are you trying to change?  Why?