I am engaged in an interesting project that aims to help people and also to help people to help others.  After a couple of sessions we focused in on this idea of making a difference by sharing.  In this web era, everyone has the power to publish their ideas, their experiences and their creative outpourings.   People capture events on their phones and upload them and random snippets of real life are there for all to see.

I feel that the media has created this cult of the ‘expert’; those faces that they drag out to comment on everything from economics to football.  Over the years, we perhaps begin to believe that these people do have access to more knowledge.  However, perhaps we forget that we are also experts, especially in our own lives.  I’m often stunned and humbled by the stories others share, and also gobsmacked by the humbling power of the simple truth when it is shared. 

We all want people to think the best of us and yet, it seems to me, we are at our most powerful and attractive when we are not pretending to be anyone or anything other than ourselves.  Why is it so scary just to show ourselves?

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”  Anne Frank

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy