As Margaret Mead said, never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.

For indeed, that's all whoever have.

At the end of the day, it's going to be up to you if you want to make change.

It's going to be up to you to gain the skills that you're going to need in order to see

the shift in the world that you want to see.

But if we're going to make change, the first thing that we have to realize is our thinking

is what's gotten us here.

The way that you think about yourself, the way that you think about the world is what's

led you to the point that you are right now.

And so that very thinking becomes its own trap.

And as Einstein said, the world as we have created it is a process of our thinking.

It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

So the fundamental first step is to actually change the process by which you assess yourself

and assess the world until you can go in and do the hard work of changing the way that

you approach the world, of constructing an entirely new frame of reference.

You're not going to be able to have the effect in the world that you want to have, that

you've got to be willing to put your head down, you've got to be willing to grind, you've

got to be willing to go through the process of changing.

It's not enough to know that the mind is plastic, it's not enough to know that you can

shape yourself into anything that you want.

You actually have to do the work.

What awaits you on the other side of that realization is an understanding that subtle

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