30 Things You Can Do To STOP Changing the World
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Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The well-intentioned rallying cry to “change the world” becomes louder and more hashtag-worthy, especially as Earth Day approaches. A search on Google garners millions of results for articles to help people make a difference:
*10 Things That Even YOU Can Do to Change the World
*30 Things You Can Do to Change the World in 30 Seconds
*50 Ways YOU Can Change the World without Leaving Your Favorite Chair.
The problem is that we're asking the wrong thing of people. It’s not that we CAN change the world. It’s that we ARE changing the world. What we need to do is STOP changing the world -- and change ourselves instead.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought, The Place to Explore, Celebrate and Manifest, a life motivated and defined by unconditional compassion and optimal wellness. |
| 0:17.0 | My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I'm your host. |
| 0:19.8 | My work is dedicated to empowering people to live according to their own values of compassion. is website Colleen Patrick Goodro. Today's topic is let's stop changing the world. |
| 0:37.0 | This Food for Thought Podcast is brought to you by the listeners of this podcast |
| 0:42.0 | and that means you. Thank you for listening all of |
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| 0:50.0 | slash Colleen Patrick Goodro and thank you especially to all of our platinum supporters |
| 0:55.6 | Tim Anderson Jennifer Ellis Ben Ellis Paige Achison Sylvie Rockel |
| 1:00.6 | Valentina Zankle Ulrich, Amanda Class, Renee Morinkovich, David Cabrera, |
| 1:06.9 | Alexander Gray, and Mikhail Stone. |
| 1:10.5 | And happy anniversary everyone. I wrote this episode on the 10 year anniversary of this food for thought podcast. |
| 1:19.5 | I checked to see the publication date of the first episode and coincidentally it was on my |
| 1:27.1 | birthday. |
| 1:28.1 | I didn't even remember that. |
| 1:29.1 | But March 8, 2006 is when, I mean I knew it was 2006 I just didn't realize it was on my birthday |
| 1:35.8 | which makes it even more special and on March 8th 2006 is when I put out the very |
| 1:41.5 | first food for thought Podcast episode which is amazing. |
| 1:45.0 | So thank you to everyone who's listening. |
| 1:46.7 | If you'd like to make a special contribution for the anniversary of this podcast, |
| 1:50.7 | I would be so grateful and I'm so grateful to just all of you. |
| 1:54.1 | Thank you so much for making this possible. I can't believe 10 years have gone by |
| 1:57.7 | that means I'm 10 years older, hopefully 10 years wiser. And of course, as you know in celebration, |
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