Leadership Calls for Intentional Change
The CCN Article about “In economic turmoil, US needs a leader like Churchill” caught my attention. He has a point – and I think he is missing the greater story here. We need a vision that is bigger than ourselves – one that challenges all of us to stop being victims and to become leaders ourselves.
In my opinion, the real question of leadership is that it is time to create Intentional Change:
- It is the time in history is to notice the self-destructive nature of the duality and drama game. What’s the replacement?
- It is time to start looking 100 years down the road to see the legacy and the state of the world we all are collectively leaving our children. What’s our highest hope?
- It is time for Americans (and all of us in our communities) to make an intentional choice to accept the challenge of figuring out how we can each help change the course of human history. What can we do individually and as part of a collective?
- It is time to notice that our self-destructive habits of game, blame, shame, and overconsumption are just habits. Whether we are part of the media, the political process, the bureaucracy, the prison cycle, the religious positioning, the entertainment, consumerism and economic games – we can change our habits of emotional and physical domination and waste. What can we do to flip consumption into revitalization?
- It is time to notice that regardless of all the perceived roles we play, we are simply humans who depend on our earth for our very life. We love, we care, we want to take pride in who we are, what we have to give. We want to be appreciated for doing the best we know how to do. We want the best for our families. How can we get that without harming others?
We have never before been here at this time in history. We have a great deal of challenges ahead – both manmade and physical. What we do today really does make a difference.
I believe it is time to intentionally decide to reinvent all the infrastructures that don’t work. We must redesign unsustainable business, political and social practices. We must learn how to forgive ourselves (and each other) for all the ‘stupid’ things we may have done over the years. Often, we did not know, or did not stop to think through the consequences.
Today, we know the damage we are causing. At this point it is time to break the cycles.
I have learned that the greatest question I can ask is: ”How can we, as a collective group of people, unite creatively?”
- Why not share our wisdom and knowledge across sectors, and help us all figure out how to regenerate and rebuild our human world to be more life-enhancing?
- Why not invent new ways of social discourse so that we can help us all learn how to restore honor, dignity and vitality to each person so each of us is able to contribute our greatest gift to the community?
- Why not stop pretending that we are separate from, better than or less than the world around us? Let’s appreciate that our very cells are made up of the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the minerals we consume in our food supply. We are recycled elements of this earth connected through life force energy.
- Why not begin to appreciate that we each truly are part of a living, systemically interconnected organism. We each can ‘feel in our bones’ the harm that we are doing to this earth. We can change.
It is time we behaved as life-enhancing, honorable organisms who love deeply. It is time for our inner leadership skills to be born. We can do it. The resources and tools are here. Let’s use them.
I have done my best to bring forth a platform to help each one of you bring your skills and gifts to the table. You are invited to join me and other trailblazers and pioneers at UnitingCreatives.com to start blogging for change. You can help us form the future of the website. It isn’t perfect…but it is what I have been able to do so far.
