What this blog is...

so...

every one is talking about change. change this change that... but it is so easy to talk about it but I really want to do it...

I heard someone say... If you want to change the world, you have to start with yourself.

and that's what I want to do... don't we all?

"what man is a man who does not make the world a better place..." (kingdom of heaven)

so i thought lots of people read blogs... what if I made a blog where I posted things I wanted to change about myself and how I was doing with it... and then if other people wanted to change things about themselves they could do that too. and we could encourage each other...

there was this journal called the phoenix journal back in the day and it was kind of founded on this poem by D.H. Lawrence.

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled,
 made nothing?
 Are you willing to be made nothing?
 dipped into oblivion?
 If not, you will never really change.
 The phoenix renews her youth
 only when she is burnt, burnt alive, burnt down
 to hot and flocculent ash.
 Then the small stirring of a new small bub in the nest
 with strands of down like floating ash
 shows that she is renewing her youth like the eagle,
 immortal bird.

Here is a link to the wikipedia article about the journal if you want to read more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phoenix_%28art_journal%29

I really feel that the world needs change... and I know that I am one guy who dreams bigger that he can act but if we all just change a little bit... change to make things better we can start to move in the right direction.

So I want to ask myself everyday when I wake up... What are you going to change today?

It can be things about myself like... drive slower on my way to work... go for a walk after dinner.... read a book before I go to bed... or go to sleep earlier... things like that to help myself... or it could be other things to help other people... drive slower on my way to work... or take the bus to work... recycle my paper instead of throw it away.... have more patience with others... take a homeless person to lunch... smile at a stranger... i don't know... you think of it....

but if we all made a conscious decision to change things about ourselves... (we are not perfect...) and we encourage each other we can make the world a better place....

I might sound dumb or stupid... i think i do... but I am going to do it anyway... because I think it will work.

what am I going to change today... I am going to start going to bed earlier... because I don't get enough sleep. we will see how I do.