Commit To Being A Positive Difference Maker

Let's fully commit as a global community of consciousness to being positive change agents and positive difference makers in as many lives a possible. 

June 12, 2020

Our society is at a critical crossroads that will require trailblazing creativity, forward-thinking, courage, and empathetic leadership. Two of the most important words right now are WE and US. For fundamental change to occur, we must be willing to have authentic conversations. That’s not always easy. Real and honest discussions can be uncomfortable because they force us to stand in truth. Most of us are not ready to have these raw, challenging, and uncomfortable conversations with ourselves and others because they confront our identity and our belief systems.

We tend to see the world through our own biased lenses. Since we are the products of our environments and our education, we have been taught what to think, not how to think. It might be transformative if we strived to see the world through another person's viewpoint. We must cultivate time to genuinely understand ourselves and other people better. We must create time to actively listen with an open mind to people's stories, to their pain, and to their trauma without becoming defensive. We need to evaluate our talk-to-listen ratio more than ever in this defining moment, while restructuring our mindset around listening to learn. When we truly begin to acknowledge the continued journey of inequality and injustice in this world, we can then start and do everything in our power to become part of the solution.

One of these first steps we can take is beginning to understand and unlearn old beliefs, behaviors, and actions that have been etched in our mindsets but are no longer serving us or those we lead. We must develop 21st-century skills and new ways of thinking. We must unlearn to relearn how to think.

  • Old Truth vs. New Truth

  • Old World vs. New World

  • Old Sports vs. New Sports

  • Old Stories vs. New Stories

  • Old Habits vs. New Habits

  • Old Business vs. New Business

  • Old Thinking vs. New Thinking

  • Old Problems vs. New Problems

  • Old Leadership vs. New Leadership

  • Old Relationships vs. New Relationships

  • Old Communication vs. New Communication

Understand there is no more appropriate and dire time to practice self-leadership and self-discipline. If we cannot lead ourselves, we will never be able to lead others. Self-leadership and self-discipline are in our control every day that we are bestowed with the gift of life. Our words must be manifested in our behavior. Anything short of that, and we are living a lie.

So how can we meet this unique moment in time? We must start with ourselves and do our part. Correcting our wrongdoing starts with our behavior. Change first begins with acknowledgment, self-education, and self-awareness. How we show up today will determine tomorrow's progress. Each day we must capture the minds, hearts, and commitment of those we lead not merely by our words but by our actions. We have a responsibility to lead ourselves in times of turmoil. In moments of darkness and unrest, the best leaders and positive difference-makers become the guiding light to truth-seeking solutions.

But if we do not understand, recognize, and heal our past wounds, there will be no unified growth and future. To create meaningful reform, we all have to reassess the roles we will play. Let's fully commit as a global community of consciousness to being positive change agents and positive difference makers in as many lives a possible.

Our hope at The Daily Coach is that we will be who we say we are. After all, we are the problem. And we are the solution.

If you want to know what you can do, take this pledge and live it:

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P.S. If you are in search of a book recommendation, our team at The Daily Coach highly recommends Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi. This deeply inspiring book, reveals the lines that separate us based on race or other perceived differences and how telling our stories--and listening deeply to the stories of others--are the first and most crucial steps we can take towards negating racial inequity in our culture. Featuring interviews with over 150 Americans accompanied by their photographs, this intimate toolkit also offers a deep examination of the seeds of racism and strategies for effecting change.

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