The Pursuit of Readiness

At the risk of sounding pompous, I was born to make a difference in this world. Knowing this, I'm sure you can understand how disappointing it is for me to feel like I have no audience for which to make that difference. I don't have a job [in my field]. There are no lives for me to transform because I don't have any clients. And every day that I spend looking for my platform on which to make a difference, I fall further away from where I want to be.

Suddenly, some famous words come to mind "...be the change you wish to see in the world." Those words finally have meaning.

Let me get one thing clear: I believe that in order to make a difference in this world, I not only need to be the change I wish to see, but I also need to share with the world how I made that change. Otherwise, the only difference I've made is in myself. Makes sense to me. Do you agree? If so, please keep reading.

This blog is now officially dedicated to my pursuit of readiness. What is it that I am getting ready for? A road race. A 5K. A marathon. A triathlon. An Ironman. An open water swim. It doesn't matter what I'm training for. The point is I'll be ready when I finally figure out what it is I want to do. All I know now is I am not ready for anything. Not even for the tiniest, flattest, 3.1-mile race I've done over a hundred times in the past. The not being ready part kills me. It even kills me more than not being able to make a difference in the world. I think I know deep down that if I were to find that job, I wouldn't even be ready to make a difference in your life because I'm not ready in my own.

So here goes: the change I wish to see in the world is fitness and readiness in all humankind - so that one day, if we want to be challenged by something adventurous and new, we can handle it. If someday our bodies are overcome by illness or injury, we will stand a fighting chance. And since that is the change I want to see in the world, it's what I must become: fit and ready.

Read along during the next few weeks, months, years. I have no idea how long it will take me to feel ready. I hope that my efforts will make a difference in your life and that being the change I wish to see in the world somehow morphs into something even more beautiful than its meaning. Thanks for reading - and please enjoy.