214 Being the Change

How are you being when you are in the world doing? - Lewis Howes If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes and more at http://lewishowes.com/214. Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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  This is Five Minute Friday, episode #214, on Being the Change.

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  John F. Kennedy said, "One person can make a difference, and everyone should try." Have you ever stopped to think what it means to be human? We have so much power, yet haven't quite mastered responsibility to ourselves, or our home, the earth, or her other inhabitants. Today, I want to talk about being. From an early age, we learn to run and shuffle towards accomplishments, checking off the items on our to-do list, mindlessly following the hustle of life around us. Like a driver on a four-lane highway unaware she's speeding, because everyone around her is driving 85 and a 65, and she is simply going with the flow.

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  And all of the doing of modern life, it's a wonder we don't question what we are being.

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  We are, after all, human beings, not human doings. Words are powerful invocations. Who are you being right now? Who would you like to be? What will it take from you to be what you wish? Gandhi famously said, "We need to be the change we want to see in the world." But what does that mean? Most of us are familiar with doing things. We can change our hair color or our cut. We can change the volume of our voice from loud to soft. We can change the soup from bland to salty. If I want to see an end to injustice in our country, what can I do about it? What is there to do?

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  Being the change means being peaceful if I want to see peace in the world. Being the change means eradicating the tendency for violence and power and fear within myself, so that one person at a time is affected by my way of being. If I am not being peace, how can I expect peace?

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  In nineteen twenty-three, pioneering psychologist Carl Jung heard a story of a Daoist medicine man who helped bring rain to a village that was in serious drought. Jung was told this story by Richard Wilhelm, who spent many years studying Chinese culture and wrote a translation of the I Ching. The rainmaker came from a great distance upon arriving in the village, asked only for a small hut to stay in. He retreated to the hut for three days, and on the fourth day, it rained and snowed at the same time of the year that snow did not normally come. When Wilhelm met the rainmaker, he asked him how he had made it rain.

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  The rainmaker replied that he was not responsible for the rain. Wilhelm asked in a different way so that the rainmaker could understand and inquired as to what he had done those three days in the hut. "Oh, I can explain that," the rainmaker said. "I come from another country where things are in order. Here, they are out of order. They are not as they should be by the ordinance of the heavens. Therefore, the whole country is not in Dao, meaning in harmony. And I am also not in balance because I am in an unbalanced country. So I had to wait for three days until I was back in balance, and then naturally, the rain came." Carl Jung loved this story very much

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  and told it often to convey the idea that our way of being can have a massive effect on the world and how just one person can make magic happen for everyone. My question to you is, how do you want your world to be now? How do you want it to be for your children and for your grandchildren? Who do you get to be to create that future? How are you being when you are in the world doing?

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  Thank you again so much everyone for being here. This is Five Minute Friday. Feel free to share this with your friends if you found it insightful, powerful, entertaining, or something positive that you could share with them by spreading the link lewishouse.com/214 over on social media, or emailing a friend directly. Again, lewishouse.com/214. It means so much to me that you continue to listen every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to all of our episodes. I'm so blown away by the support of all the listeners of the School of Greatness podcast. We've got some incredible guests coming up. Thank you guys again so much. This is Five Minute Friday on Being the Change. How will you show up in the world today?

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  How will you be in the world today? You know what time it is. It's time to go out there and be great.