42.0 Weeks of Change

2011 created the ideology behind A Joint 3ffort: puff, puff, pass.

All you have is yourself, your circle and the world.

Succeed yourself,

create success for your circle,

and pass on that success to your world: this is what creates peace :)

Actually, that's kind of what creates happiness, a functional society, a sustainable world.

2011 was a realization of the important things in life: an understanding of friendship, of health, of loss, of values and experience, knowledge and wisdom, of opportunity and creation,

of how

thoughts become words

words become actions and actions become habits

which develop into character and character becomes destiny.

Everybody seems to agree that 2012 is going to be a year of change: whether it brings WW3, the rapture, environmental disaster, male feminization, widespread economic collapse, the golden/enlightenment/aquarius age or any other form of change, few seem to be thinking or talking or acting on changing whatever is wrong in themselves, their circle or the world or even know how to.

Charles Darwin, author of On the Origin of Species, said: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change."

2012 calls for change.

A Joint 3ffort will create and document 42.0 steps towards a better world throughout 2012.

Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, said: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

In 2012 I will create and document 14 positive changes in my personal life.

I have some ideas of what and how and when.

Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement, said: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

In 2012 I hope to see my home, meaning Toronto, Ontario and Canada as a whole, become a better place.

Francis Bacon said: "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."

I will not wait for time to create new evils, we need remedies, we need change for the better in a number of different ways. In 2012 I will help create and document 14 positive changes to my circle.

Arnold Bennett said: "Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

In expecting that it will not be easy, that the changes I want to see will be a struggle and will require effort, it can be planned for. Regardless, change in myself, in my circle and in my world is necessary to create the success we strive for.

Lisa Taylor said: "We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon - to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go... we must continually ask ourselves, 'what will happen if...' or better still, 'how can we make it happen?'"

2012 will create the changes deemed necessary throughout 2011. Positive changes, changes for the better. Real, tangible changes. A Joint 3ffort will help create and document 14 weeks of changes in the world throughout 2012.

As Bruce Barton said: "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of over-confidence fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress."

A Joint 3ffort has a plan for 2012, an idea to create change in positive ways, in ourselves, our circles, our world: progress.

42.0 weeks of change: starting with me, leading to you, and passed onto the world.

What's your plan for 2012?

puff, puff, peace.

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