What kind of world do you want to see created?

Are you waiting for instructions, or permission, or a great pep-talk?

We’ve all heard Mohandas Gandhi’s encouragement to be the change we want to see.

Many blame others for the way things are.  True, it’s hard to see a better world when many are living destructively, but this doesn’t alter the fact that we each have the capacity to create the world of our choosing, even if it’s in some small way.

It all begins inside each of us.  We wait to be motivated by others when self-motivation is what we need.

When working with others on their Strengths (“superpowers”), I remind myself, I ‘m not trying to motivate them, rather, I’m aiming to provide a space in which they can find their inner motivation – what their life has been whispering to them all along.

I need this space too.  Each morning I reconnect with my own motivation.  Generally, this involves connecting with what I can and cannot do and my passions (a better understanding of humility), gratitude for what I have already for achieving this, and a willingness to do the small things, the small steps which take me from here to there (faithfulness).

Specifically, these provided the growing conditions I need.  Biomimicry – how we can mimic nature’s design in our lives – provides a lens for seeing how this is about the opposite to self-sufficiency in three ways:

Zero Waste means no experience is useless and I can use it to learn and grow;

Solar Energy is required for everything on Earth to live; I need help from outside in the form of people, resources (ideas, input …); and …

Diversity and Symbiosis: encouraging me to do many things with many others.

Seth Godin tells us we are now living in a connection economy ‘where people who care find others who care and they all end up caring about something even more than they did before they met.’

It’s already begun inside you: connect to this and then to others.