If you want to change the world, what do you need to change about yourself?

Recognising the need to change you is the first step to contributing to change at a global level.

Regardless of what change you are intending making, however large scale or impactful to outcome of the process will be — all change processes start with the first change. Your change.

Pretty much every leadership model, methodology or practice that I’ve engage with over the past year seems to reflect this same ethos — that change must begin at the individual level.

This change may be a realisation of a need to act differently to move towards a new desired outcome.

It may be a shift of intention, an improvement in communicating a familiar message, or enhancing an established practice — any and all of which can move you closer to achieving your goals and pursing your purpose.

All of these come from you, and are passed onto, accelerated and amplified by those you lead.

Ghandi’s expression ‘be the change we want to see’ embodies this perfectly.

If you want to see a different world, and be the change that progresses towards it, it’s you that changes first.

So here’s the question to contemplate — if you want to change the world, what do you need to change about yourself?

Once you’ve considered that…here’s a few variations you might want to reflect on as well;

• If you want to change the world, what will you change about yourself first?
• If you want to change the world, what will you change about yourself next?
• If you want to change the world significantly, what would you radically change about yourself?
• If you want to change the world, what would you need to do differently?
• If you want to change (insert anything you want to change), what’s the biggest thing about you that’s preventing you from being the change you want to see?
• If you want to Be change, how do YOU change?
• If you want to Do change, when will You change?

As always, I hope you’ve found both this question, and these variations helpful.

Thanks for your time and attention — both are very much respected and appreciated.