Something New

Dear friend,

I was speaking a few months ago with Randy in the States. He told me that he likes seeing the emails from me popping into his inbox. He doesn’t have time to read many of them, but he described it as like a nod to a neighbour. Someone you see most days.

I like that.

It’s a nice feeling knowing that somehow these messages arrive at the right time. The connection matters to me. The more I get on with writing every day, the more opens up.

Zara was fine today, her injury looking a lot worse than it is. Shaved pink skin and iodine stains standing out shockingly on her snow-white fur. She didn’t like it when I dabbed the wound to keep it clean. She sat by the fridge looking forlorn. I gave her a treat, and we sat for a while.

Company.

I’ve been working long hours recently. All good stuff. Enjoyable. Intense too.

Over the next five years, we’ll see unprecedented change.

I read in Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus that AI will add an estimated $15.7 trillion to the global economy. I’m wondering how much of that wealth can be evenly distributed around the world?

What will a post-materialist global economy look and feel like? How will it be to live within our lifetimes? The idea that you go on amassing as much financial power as you can; as if it in itself is a worthy goal. At the cost of the environment. To the detriment of your fellow human beings. There are already alternatives to the insanity.

What about seven generations into the future?

Big things can feel so overwhelming we become paralysed.

We’re always left with the step in front of us.

That’s what I’ve been doing. One step at a time. I’ve re-instated the List and Persist method I learned from Bob Proctor.

Each night I make a list of the steps for the next day. The next day, I wake up and do them. If an item doesn’t get done, it moves over to the next day.

I could have a list as long as my arm, but I keep it to around six or seven priorities.

Step by step toward a future that includes all of us.

I read a great article from Dr. Jed Diamond today. One message that resonated is that we simply must learn to make peace with one another. Two people can do that, and it sends ripples out into the world.

Peace on a personal level spreads in unseen ways.

Vitriol and mud-slinging—you can hear and see that.

Each act of compassion and each time we reach out and support one another, change is rippling through the unseen world that connects all of life. No gesture is wasted. It all adds up.

One foot in front of the other.

One breath at a time.

Coming home to ourselves.

Till tomorrow

Love

Mikey

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