Would you buy a used car from yourself?

It’s easy to point fingers at others when they don’t do things right. But it’s way more difficult to accept that sometimes it is us who don’t do exactly what we say.

Take climate change, for example.

We absolutely agree that the world is in bad shape and that we need to act now, but many times we still behave as if things weren’t so serious as they actually are.
Have you wondered why?

Here’s one theory: habits are very rooted, and the massive shift that is needed seems more possible as an abstract intellectual exercise than in real life. The solutions seem to be out of our reach, appearing that they should only be in the hands of experts or heroes… and we don’t see ourselves in any of these categories.

Perhaps if we start in a way that better suits us, with a system that is not so foreign to our daily life, we could consistently accelerate our incorporation into a new way of living that is increasingly necessary.

It should be about transforming our lives, sure, but starting with methods and ways we know, in an environment and with a way of doing that changes the notion of duty for that of challenge.

“It’s easy to point fingers at others when they don’t do things right. But it’s way more difficult to accept that sometimes it is us who don’t do exactly what we say”.

That seems to be not only the key to start really acting for the world improvement, but also to feeling good about what we are; it is vital to feel in alignment with ourselves if we want to regain enough confidence to return to the idea that we can “write” the future again.

There is no doubt that the world needs to change in order to improve, and that that necessarily includes our participation in that change.

So, the only obligation here seems to find a way that hopefully will allow us to say one day “we made it”.

Or at least allow us to confidently affirm, “I have tried my best”.