Connect with Yourself

Connect with Yourself

Ever Met a Miserable World-Changer?

Imagine someone who has changed the world for the better. It doesn’t matter if they’re real or madeup,

just form a clear picture of what they look like and how they act. Imagine the two of you having

lunch together. How would it feel?

Go on, it’ll just take a few seconds. We’ll wait.

Everyone we’ve ever asked to do this imagines a happy person. Not just surface-level happy, but

deeply joyful and at peace with life, the universe, and everything.

Have you ever met a miserable world-changer?

It just doesn’t happen. Unhappy people aren’t effective. Miserable people don’t achieve big goals.

Gloomy people don’t have the motivation to stick with anything long enough to make a real

difference.

So if you want to change the world, first get happy!

Here are some great first steps

to becoming happier...

No protest rallies.

No bullshit.

Just ideas. World-changing ideas.

It has happened before, and

it can happen again. Think

about the Renaissance. When

the Renaissance swept Europe

and then the world, was there

a violent uprising? Were any

governments overthrown?

Were any anti-art monarchs

assassinated? No. The creation

and transmission of revolutionary

ideas fueled the revolution. The

ideas swept through the dominant

paradigm, causing changes that

continue to ripple through our

lives.

A revolution of ideas has two

steps: practice and share.

A world in which everyone talks

about connection but doesn’t

practice connection doesn’t sound

like a great world to be in, does it?

So let’s put it into practice:

Connect with yourself, connect

with others, connect with the

world, connect with Spirit

not supported by anything but

themselves. If a bunch of people

stood straight up all at once, the

structure would collapse and a

new one would take its place. And

anyone still leaning would fall

down.