Do me a favor? Fix the world.

It is generally agreed upon that the world's overall state of being could use some improvement. Just as the world is filled with people, it is filled with problems.

If there were a magick wand that could be waved to fix all the troubles that would be just great wouldn't it? But as we all know, such a thing is probably not going to happen.

Have you ever walked into a place, a bedroom, an office, or the recent site of an explosion and seen just chaos and confusion, with things strewn about everywhere? You may think to yourself, how is this ever going to be cleaned up. How does one go about making this place fit to be seen by others, or ever even used for its original intended purpose?

While you are taking it all in as one whole thing the task of maintenance and repair seems impossible. Your brain just wants to shrivel up and hide. There is too much going on all at once.

With all of the wars, famine, corrupt politics, piracy, racial prejudice and a seeming limitless list of other "fun" things going on in the world, it seems that "cleaning up" our world is an impossible task.

But what is it that our world shares with countries, that countries share with states, states share with cities and cities share with homes? What is the common denominator in all of them?

That's right. People. Everything that is right or wrong with the world can be said to be the work or fault of people. If the world is to change in any positive way, it requires the people living within it to change.

So what I want you to do, right now, is to get up from where ever it is that you happen to be reading this and go out and change every person in the world. Go on. Go do it. Right now!

What's that you say? It's too big of a task? I must be insane?

Well maybe, but I talk about that in a previous post.

Now with that super messy area we discussed earlier, the only way to get things done is to break up the task of cleaning it into a series of lesser tasks, each on a smaller scale than cleaning the whole room or area.

The world is the same way. The task of changing the world for the better must be scaled down into smaller tasks and worked on one area at a time. Each person only has a limited amount of influence that they use to get people to think and do as they say. Most people do not influence others on a global or even country wide scale. Even within a single city very few people have the influence to get everyone within its limits to do things their way. But a single person can and should hold absolute sway over what they themselves think and do.

The best thing you personally can do, to change the world, is to change yourself. Become the person that you think epitomizes the traits that our world should have. Once you have become that person or once you are well on your way to becoming that person, encourage others in your home to do the same.

Then use your home as model for other homes in your community. Show how you manage to handle and conquer many of the problems that exist within the world and why they are not an issue in your scaled down world. Gradual expansion can and should occur. Over time the influence of your way of being will grow. More and more people will see through experience that your way is a better way and they will begin to follow it.

Just as with that messy room, when there are two or three people with a million tasks it takes forever. But when there are a million people with a million tasks, the work is quickly done.