History Starts Now

​What kind of world do you want?

That's a powerful place to start your morning, isn't it? Do you start your mornings with that question? Have you ever started your morning with that question? Like asking that question and then answering it....

Or, are you like me, and most mornings you skip the possibilities found in that question and simply jump right back into the flow of "let's see where the world takes me today."

There's comfort in flow. I sure get that. But history tells us flow doesn't always land us where we need to be. It doesn't land us where we need to be personally. It doesn't land us where we need to be collectively - as a world.

I looked up the word history this morning. One definition says:

"The whole series of past events connected with someone or something."

When I think about that - "the whole series of past events" - I wonder how many of those historic events unfolded the way they did because people didn't wake up in the morning and ask themselves - "what kind of world do I want?"

I wonder how many people didn't ask that question because they felt hopeless in their capacity to shape their world to look like their answer - because somewhere along the way they'd given up on the world they once dreamed of?

I think we should ask each other that question more - what kind of world do you want? What kind of world do you want in the little circle of it you walk in? What kind of world do you want everyone to be able to walk in?

I think when we encourage each other to start answering that question, we take a little more control of history. We start to identify how we can help one another have the kind of world they want.

Some days, I think, we allow ourselves to believe it's too late for a masterpiece. It's too late to have the kind of world that we want.

Those are the days it might be worth reminding ourselves that history starts now.