I am participating in the Women on the Verge monthly blog extravaganza. This month’s topic is Women Change the World.
No topic too big for Women on the Verge, that is for sure!
Sometimes the notion of changing the world becomes so big that any decent person is intimated. Instead of rallying our sense of courage, we freeze and lose track of our keen wisdom.
Fear not, my friends. After 30 years as a social worker, group facilitator, cultural competency trainer, life coach and business owner, I have adopted a perspective that allows me to engage the world with grace, humor, and supreme influence.
This perspective keeps me alive, refueled, and present to the wonders of change.
What is this grand point of view you ask?
It is quite simple, really.
I have finally come to accept that the world wants and needs me. All of me. In fact, more I can bring me into the world the better.
This is just as true for you. You change and influence the world simply by being alive. The more you open up to and welcome all of you, the better we all are!
With this method of world change, there is nothing to do, have, think, or convey.
There is no arm twisting, grand strategy to execute, or club to join.
You don’t have to run for office, get your name in lights, or break a single glass ceiling.
You might, but you could stay in bed all day long and STILL change the world.
You see, because the likes of you have never existed before you, you change everything simply by being alive.
Part of me still wants to come up with a very convoluted, or disciplined approach to changing the world so that you will take this notion a bit more seriously.
But I won’t. I don’t want to distract you from you.
With this perspective in mind, your biggest opportunity is to bring as much of you to each moment as possible. Opening up to, sharing and trusting you is where you find your biggest challenges and your biggest joys. Experiencing and expressing you is what life is ALL about!
If you want to change the world even more, see how much YOU, you can bring to each moment, each interaction, each action-even if the action you choose is to take a nap.
Think about it.
Who else questions, explores, experiments, experiences, wonders, walks, runs, dances, sits, plays, eats, learns, dreams, dares, tastes, touches, smells, listens, speaks, writes, reads, draws, emotes, screams, sins, repents, forgives, cries, prays, bows, rises, stands, sees, laughs, creates, confronts, and loves, like you do? (adapted from Terry Tempest Williams’, Leap)
This isn’t an ego trip.
This is about accepting your place in the divine web of the universe. Look around and know that this is also true for every other person on earth.
The more you open up to and share you, the more you can enjoy the gifts the world has in store for you.
I understand. Sharing you takes courage. Exposing you feels vulnerable. The world often sends a contradictory message, as if you are not perfect just the way that you are. As if NOT being you is the path to safety and security. I would venture to say that ALL of our individual and collective ills can be linked to the small and large choices each of us make that compromise who we truly are. Our BEST successes are rooted in pure expression.
Now, more than ever, the world needs each of us!
You, just the way that you are today, are the gift that the world needs and wants now.
Come on! Let’s open up and give the world what we’ve got!
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