I’ve been writing a book over the last year or so, and I’m at at the point where I’m writing query letters and proposals, hoping to find a publisher. The working title is Start With Universe: Patterns for transforming yourself, your community and the world (before it’s too late).
When I first started to assemble the thoughts and ideas that would later come together as patterns, I kept a note on my computer screen with two questions I wanted the book to answer. The first was “how can I make the world better?” This is a practical question. What are the steps? We’re inundated daily with news about how bad things are getting, but there’s very little information about what to do about it. I wanted to change that.
The second question was “how can I make a difference?” This is a more personal question. It dares to assert that each of us is important, that any one of us could come up with the right idea at the critical time and redirect the flow of history away from disaster. Any one of us could tilt our collective destiny toward success.
To make a difference, you've got to make things that change the culture (the practical), but you also have to imbue those things with a life that reflects your unique self (the personal). That requires courage, personal growth and transformation, as well as innovation.
You’ve probably heard that if you want to change the world, you have to start by changing yourself. It turns out that the opposite is also true: the best way to change yourself, to grow and become a better human, is to work to change the world.
Both transformations go hand in hand. Both are acts of creation.
That’s what my book is about: practical steps for gently transforming yourself, your community and the world, toward greater life, through intentional acts of creation.
If that sounds interesting to you, let me know. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
