if you can see the problem, you can be the solution

I used to spend a lot more time talking about what was wrong with the world than I did actively building a different world. I was taught that “raising awareness” was the key to liberation. I was angry. And I also was pretty darn disempowered.

Subconsciously I was not actually in touch with my leadership capacity. I was still stuck in a paradigm where the change would happen by convincing the people “in charge” to do something different. Rather than by paving a new path.

If we can see where systems are failing, we can sense how to innovate an alternative. If we can identify what others are doing wrong, we can show up for what we can do right.

We’ve all heard “be the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi) many times, but are we truly embodying it?

We’ve been so programmed to see ourselves as small, weak, and incapable. To see positive social change as something that takes a long time and that only some people can accomplish. To put off the small shifts that accumulate into big results. To pretend like we don’t know the answer because we’re afraid to witness our power and potential. To resist shining because we’ve been conditioned to think that our light harms rather than helps others.

Our world is going through tremendous change. And we are all being called forward to play our part in our collective rebirth. The sidelines are less and less safe. The illusion of security in the old system is crumbling. It’s time to evolve. And we have everything we need for the journey, if we’re willing to commit.