How-cool-is-this!!!
Robert Hruzek of Middle Zone Musings sent out an email to a few close friends about a series he writes monthly.
Robert’s been thinking, and he’s decided to make a challenge. He said he wouldn’t mind if I shared that challenge with you. So, here’s an excerpt from that email.
Over the last couple of days I’ve posted a two-part series at Middle Zone Musings on the subject of change, and got so inspired it prompted me to do something crazy (I mean, more than usual). So, go ahead and call me crazy if you like, but here it is: I’ve decided to change the world!
OK, I can hear it now; a chorus of, “Well, that’s just crazy!” (See; told ya!) But I don’t mind; I’m still goin’ for it! But, I really need your help (sound of stampede to the door).
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been inspired by Liz Strauss’s Change The World series of posts. It always amazed me to realize just how much a single person can change the world, given the right circumstances. So I said to myself, “Self, why don’t you change the world?” Amazingly enough, me, myself and I agreed to quit talking about it and actually do something! (After all, it’s so rare that we all agree on something! I mean, besides ice cream; ice cream is always good.)
With that audacious goal in mind, I’ve just kicked off a Special Edition of our usual monthly What I Learned From… writing project with a two part post (yesterday’s and today’s) on the topic of Change. Yes, I know it’s a bit early – usually it starts on the first Monday of every month, but this time we’re going to need a few more days.
Please do me a favor and drop by the Zone, read these posts, and consider the challenge. Then, if you’d like to change the world with me, then by all means, let’s do it!
So, what do you think? Are you up to a challenge?
Will you change the world?
You, me, Robert . . . we can change the world, just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Liz, I’m honored! Thanks so much for the nod – I can’t wait to see where this all goes. It seem like September is the month for change – I’ve already heard from several folks and it’s gonna be great!
Hey, let’s change the world, why don’t we?
Hey Robert!
Changing the world only takes one person and one world-sized idea. 🙂
Why not do it. 🙂
This is so crazy it just might work!
With you and Robert both involved, it seems almost sane!! 🙂
september song it is… … in the jewish calendar, it’s upcoming rosh hashanah, the jewish new year… new beginnings for new changes… I’m in 🙂
gp in montana
New beginnings are wonderful. Yes! 🙂
Hi Liz 🙂
(Haley’s Comet is back. :))
You know, when I read “You, me, Robert . . . we can change the world, just like that” in your post, it reminded me of the timeless truth (according to me, that is) how the world is actually ruled by only a handful of people.
My Class of ’80 Engineering grads recently started an alumni for our class as well as a charity Trust, etc … the point here is that only 2 or 3 people actually took the lead and formed the Trust, the registration, etc. In the eyes of the world, it’s the “Class of ’80 Trust”, but only we know who formed it. The rest just followed, chipped in a bit here and there. If our Trust can change the world, it’s a direct efforts of two people. Do the rest of us really have anything to do with changing the world?
On a whole broad level, I’d even extend this theory to communications. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and the rest just followed. Surely they chipped in, but they didn’t change the world.
The same goes for Hitler. One person changed history.
And then I read your comment Changing the world only takes one person and one world-sized idea.
And that was such a reassurance to me that my thinking is on the right track 🙂
Hi Zakman,
I really believe as you do. One person who sets aside his or her fear, one who quits acting small, can make a world of difference. I wrote about it here . . . with the help of Mandela’s speechwriter.
Change the World: One World-Sized Idea
One person can change the world.