What’s The Point?

October 8, 2009 in Conscious Living · Written by Tara Joyce · Follow Me on Twitter

Induhvidual

Do you ever wonder that sometimes? I wonder do on my darker days. I wonder what’s the point of caring about things that most people don’t give a shit about. Sometimes I wonder if I would be more at peace if I suddenly stopped paying attention.

I wonder what’s the point of being committed t0 a problem when so may others are not taking action.

Then I remember I am only responsible for me. I am not my brother’s keeper.

If I don’t care about the problem it certainly will never be solved. I must want it. I must try to understand it in order for it to have a hope of being solved.

photo credit: Dean Ayres

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  • http://twitter.com/mdrips Mike Drips

    “Then I remember I am only responsible for me. I am not my brother’s keeper.”

    I couldn't agree more; it's not a flat world of total equality in any sense of the word. Your statement reminds me of a posting I made in a technical forum recently that resolved a fairly complex problem. I was taken to task by the forum moderator because I didn't explain the solution in a manner that could be easily understood by non-English readers.

    Huh? Sadly English is the language I read, write and speak in.

    So back to your point, we all are limited by time as well as personal energy and knowledge.

  • http://www.elasticmind.ca/innerpreneur Tara Joyce

    Hi Mike,

    More than being limited by our own time restraints, energy and
    knowledge, the simple fact is we can not change people's minds and to
    try, we are only wasting valuable energy that could be channelled into
    Self development. To me, the best way to create the change I desire is
    to foster those changes within my Self and, hopefully in turn, inspire
    others to do the same.

  • http://Innerpreneuring.com gulliver

    > the simple fact is we can not change people's minds and to
    try, we are only wasting valuable energy that could be channelled into
    Self development.

    Ah, so there's where we differ.

    And here's silly-old-me with a headful of 'as Innerpreneurs, we're the commercial influence of cultural shift, with better (more human in a good way) enterprise' and a Roddick-inspired activist mindset.

    So there's where I'm going wrong. So the, how does that sit with this?

  • http://www.elasticmind.ca/innerpreneur Tara Joyce

    I'm not sure what the question is, gulliver. Innerpreneurs are the
    commercial influence but what does that have to do with changing
    people's minds? That isn't my role as an Innerpreneur. My business is
    about me and what I can add to the world, not about what others are
    doing wrong and how I can correct that. Those decisions and the
    subsequent changes that result are theirs to determine. This blog, for
    example, is here to help empower people to make those realizations,
    not tell them how.

  • http://Innerpreneuring.com gulliver

    > I'm not sure what the question is.

    There is no question, simply a statement.

    >commercial influence but what does that have to do with changing
    people's minds?

    Influence *is* changing minds.
    That's how the world develops.

    There's waaaaaay too much often-sappy self-oriented 'oh, I'm working on myself and my karma' stuff prevalent within those associating with the term Innerpreneur – at least in the Rentel-influenced stereotype, rather than the original use many years earlier.

    And, although I'm on record for 'better to do than try to lever-open closed minds', if a stated intent of an Innerpreneur is 'create social change' then there's a case for putting the stuff into wider circulation with bible-thumping zeal.

    'Dedicated to promoting innerpreneurship and helping innerpreneurs make their businesses a success' is all very noble.

    And, 'Greenpeace, Ghandi, MLK', some of us are trying to change the world.

    One-line takeaway? I'm speaking of selfless, rather than selfish.

    I don't suppose we'll ever agree and doing so isn't on my objectives. I'm simply stating an alternate view.

  • http://www.elasticmind.ca/innerpreneur Tara Joyce

    Oh, I agree, influence is changing people's minds. But to influence,
    people must see something in you or your values that they desire for
    them self. Ghandi and MLK knew how to reach and connect with those who
    were seeking something more than life as is. My point is you can't
    change a mind that is not open to being changed. MLK didn't suddenly
    turn the KKK straight but he did influence those that were seeking a
    change in the world and they saw in him the leadership to make those
    changes happen. But MLK wouldn't have been MLK without taking the time
    and work to truly understand who he was and what his values, strengths
    and passions were. I doubt very much that his level of consciousness
    would have been possible without the self realization.

    And I'm curious, what reference to Innerpreneurs are you speaking of
    that was years ago, before Rental and Secrets of the Wealthy Mind? I'm
    not familiar with it.

  • http://www.elasticmind.ca/innerpreneur Tara Joyce

    Oh, g, I just noticed that your first comment I never read in it's entirety. When it arrived in my email it was cut off so it made a lot less sense than the version I am reading here on the blog. Sorry for thinking you were asking a question… it's clear you weren't. I guess DISQUS isn't perfect.