Every day, we
change. We move (slowly) toward the person we'll end up being.
Not just us, but
our organizations. Our political systems. Our culture.
Are you more
generous than the you of five or ten years ago? More confident? More willing to
explore?
Have you become
more brittle? Selfish? Afraid?
Grumpy and
bitter isn't a place we begin. It's a place we end up.
Do
we intentionally choose the optimistic path? Are we eagerly more open
to change and possibility?
Every day we
make the hard decisions that build a culture, an organization, a life.
Since yesterday,
since last week, since you were twelve, have you been making deposits or
withdrawals from the circles of supporters around you?
People
don't become selfish, hateful and afraid all at once. They do it gradually.
When we see the
dystopian worlds depicted in movies and books, are we closer to those
outcomes than a generation ago? Do we find ourselves taking actions that make
our conversations more considered, our arguments more informed, our
engagements more civil? Or precisely the opposite, because it's easier?
Your brand, your
company, your community: it has so much, is it still playing the short
game?
When your
great-grandfather arrives by time machine, what will you show him? What have
you built, what are you building? When your great-grandchildren remember the
choices we made, at a moment when we actually had a choice, what will they
remember?
We are always
becoming, and we can always make the choice to start becoming something else,
if we care.
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