Yesterday, I talked about not letting anything hold you back. Today is a new day.
In the same sense our motivations and experiences tend to lie within the world we live in because it's all we really know. In another sense, this applies to our experience in the present. Everything we do is now, so we typically want change now. Makes sense, too, because that's where we're always at.
For example, let's look at business. Business is all about creating change for the sake of driving the economy (and becoming filthy rich even at the expense of others) and improving quality of life. Before we had taxis, now we have Uber changing the transportation game. Hotels and hostels are being replaced by Air BnB spots. All of these revolve around us and our current experiences. They became huge because they directly affected our experience in the now.
However, in order to create such huge and influential changes in the now, we have to look toward the future: a world that we currently don't live in. The main difference between changing your life and a multi-billion dollar idea is the scope in which its influence can spread and change the way we all go about our lives. One directly affects our own experience, the other (potentially) affects everyone. The sky's not the limit and once we look beyond the self, we can accomplish anything when we spread the influence worldwide. Sharing is caring and we can change not only our own world, but everyone's.
Peace
"Don't change the world, change worlds." - Francis of AssisiThe only constants in our lives are our own existence and the present. We are bound by our personal experience in this world and it is moving at the speed of now. We start out living an egocentric experience as children: we're all we know and so of course our developing minds conclude that everything revolves around us, which it does but doesn't.
In the same sense our motivations and experiences tend to lie within the world we live in because it's all we really know. In another sense, this applies to our experience in the present. Everything we do is now, so we typically want change now. Makes sense, too, because that's where we're always at.
For example, let's look at business. Business is all about creating change for the sake of driving the economy (and becoming filthy rich even at the expense of others) and improving quality of life. Before we had taxis, now we have Uber changing the transportation game. Hotels and hostels are being replaced by Air BnB spots. All of these revolve around us and our current experiences. They became huge because they directly affected our experience in the now.
However, in order to create such huge and influential changes in the now, we have to look toward the future: a world that we currently don't live in. The main difference between changing your life and a multi-billion dollar idea is the scope in which its influence can spread and change the way we all go about our lives. One directly affects our own experience, the other (potentially) affects everyone. The sky's not the limit and once we look beyond the self, we can accomplish anything when we spread the influence worldwide. Sharing is caring and we can change not only our own world, but everyone's.
Peace
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Today's assignment: consider what worlds you could change.
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