By 2030 All People Will Do What They Love and Love What They Do.

This is my impossible promise to the world. It is who I am; it is what I bring to the table.

I am in a year long course called “Power & Contribution” and it meets in San Francisco 5x this year, culminating in a “Conference on Global Transformation” in May. There are over 150 people in this course, from all over the world, and they also have their promises as well. We even have a Facebook page dedicated to this conversation. It is the one without photos of babies and cats and what celebrity we look like.

I had resistance to signing up for this course. I didn’t want to fly out to San Francisco 5x, it was expensive, I’d have to take off from work… but then I got that my main resistance was in being powerful and in being a contribution. And I was using, as always, time and money as my excuses not to do something great. So I leaped. I signed up, not knowing how to pay for it and miracles appeared. I won a teleplay contest that paid 2 ½ x what the course cost. I found friends to share the hotel rooms and most importantly, I came early each time and made sure I saw my brother Joe before each weekend. And that has been one of the biggest contributions of this course yet. I had not seen him for two years. Now I have seen him 3x already. Often he picks me up at the airport and we catch up and also engage in dialogue about this course and what it provides. And I have to say, one of the biggest things I have gotten out of this course, is my brother. And that’s worth the world.

Tomorrow night I meet with two people who are planning to do this course and I made a summary of some of the teachings and some personal lessons I have taken away for myself. For four weekends so far, I have watched 150+ humans from all over the world take on their petty problems and their mighty ones- all of the distractions and obstacles that get in the way of each of us being extraordinary people. I have watched a blind woman serenade a man on his birthday, a 60+man finally let go of the pain of his childhood and now come from strength. I saw a Vietnam Vet finally forgive himself for going to Viet Nam and then an ex hippie forgave Viet Nam itself. I’ve seen courageous personal acts by people from around the globe as they cleared the paths to their promises. When we get in that room we don’t talk about what’s wrong, we talk about what can be. And each person speaks their promise- what they’re giving their lives over to. World peace, dialogues and harmony, parks for all, people being really heard and self expressed, children empowered and so much more. And in that room, in these conversations, so much gets created and we realize we are a team for a huge future. A huge future for all of us. It really moves me.

It has moved me to go back and see my family, to go into work each day and just make everyone around me happy, to encourage my loved ones to dream and fulfill on those dreams. It has made me see what stops me from truly loving people and to take that on and smash it so I can begin the important work we are all here to do.

It inspired me to write this blog, so others can see promises for themselves. That wake them up in the morning, that allow them to be able to choose what is a priority to them, to design our global future and not feel like victims of circumstances.

To all the artists and scientists, builders and teachers, mentors and craftsmen, leaders and contributors –

By 2030 all people will do what they love and love what they do.

It starts with a dream.

What's yours?