#Earth Day 2021 marks the launch of im4u.world, a #global project to #crowdsource answers to some of the most persistent problems facing #humanity.
I had the #dream for im4u.world 12 years ago but I hesitated to start, feeling overwhelmed by the #vision, fearful of failure and I procrastinated. The years passed and I let other priorities override it, yet the #vision persisted and ever so gently pulled me back. The world has become more negative and destructive than ever before since that time. For the first time in my life, I fear that #Earth and #humanity are in peril.
Still, I have an innate belief in the goodness and worth of every human being. Call me a #dreamer, perhaps, but I know it to be true. I know that it is possible to create positive, meaningful, and #constructive change once we inspire that side of #human nature.
You see, I spent most of professional life as a long-range, city planner. I worked with all aspects of #humanity, the downtrodden, the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the privileged, the powerful, the powerless, the average person on the street, the neighbor next door, the main street business owner, the multinational corporation, the elementary school, the university, the neighborhood elected president, the powerful boards and commissions, the large city, small town, hometown. Once you stripped all the pretense, all the rhetoric, the ego, I discovered that we all were all innately good and had worth in this world. Unfortunately, that often got corrupted because of fear; fear that you were not getting something you thought you should have, or fear that you would lose something you already had.
Still, most of us have a #selfless side, an inner #philanthropist (that is, someone who makes an active effort to promote #human welfare). My experience has been that tapping into this #selfless side of #humanity unleashes an enormous #creative energy. I call this 'splitting the atom'. It is like nuclear fission but instead of creating a weapon of mass destruction we create a powerful force for positive change in the #world.
im4u.world is not a movement. A movement is defined typically by many people following a cause with established precepts. I think of im4u.world as a #catalyst. A #catalyst enables significant change or action. We simply provide a means for you to create that change altogether and then make it happen in your local communities.
Here is how it is intended to work. We use a model of #Learn-#Engage-#Empower. We learn from you and countless others what hurts you and the world most (#Learn). Then we bring you into #conversation with people from all around the world, #crowdsourcing real world examples of #solutions or using everyone's collective brain power to find the best #solutions if there are not any yet (#Engage). Finally, we work together to #empower people around the #world to bring #constructive change to their #communities and then #teach others what we have learned (#Empower). And then we start it all over again.
We start with #Learn. We have constructed The Global Survey, 15 questions that will help all of us understand the path ahead. Please take a few moments and help us by completing The Global Survey and broadcasting it to the people in your #world.
It is fitting that we launch im4u.world on #Earth Day 2021. Like the name, im4u.world, I am committed to making a positive difference in the #world. Please join me in this quest and demonstrate your #commitment too. The forces that bind us together are much greater than the forces that tear us apart.
It is time to interact with the world in a completely different way.
The next steps?
Click on the im4u.world logo to the left or this link, The Global Survey and complete the survey that follows.
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