Raise the bar

# Chapter 163

If we wish to change the world, then we had better get moving. No chance of changing anything much less the world, if we aren’t moving and growing and changing. Because it is pretty clear that if you aren’t moving, growing, and learning, then you are mostly dead and can’t change your clothes. Changing the world is likely not on your schedule for the day. But we have a country full of such people - we are a society that thinks only children go to school each day and that adults do something other than learn. According to Pew research 24% of Americans haven’t read a book in the last year. That is a quarter of the people you know and see and share patriotism with are mostly dead and can barely change their clothes. Changing the world is not on their calendars this morning.

But before we get all judgy and self-righteous because you read a book this past year, a steamy romance or a historical bio of someone, you have to get moving and raise that bar a great deal, before you will be ready for the heavy lifting to come. You are the primary asset and you have to invest here first, before you will have some significant value on the rest of the world. You can’t starve the primary asset of development, and then expect it to hit a homer the first time up to bat. That is not a reasonable expectation. First you have to get moving - mentally spiritually, physically and emotionally before you can accomplish what you say you really want to help with and change in the world.