I just watched a video entitled “Lost Generation” by Jonathan Reed.  One word: brilliant.  Thanks to Scott for posting it on Facebook.  Here it is:

I loved it and wanted to share it here.  We can change the world – all it takes is a change in perspective and a willingness to act.  Okay, maybe I’m simplifying a bit.  But you know what?  When you boil it down, it is quite simple.  We all have the opportunity to make a difference; to leave a mark; to change the world.  The question… the complexity rests mostly with the decision to do something about it.

Too often, we become consumed with whatever it is we spend each hour or each day doing.  As a relative of mine once said “life is so daily.”  How perfectly a propos.  Life IS so daily.

[Why all of a sudden do I fear I’ve already used that quote in a post?  If so, I’m sorry — honest, I do have other stuff]

We can make an impact.  And we can do so in many many ways.  It’s about finding your passion and acting upon it in a way that leaves an impression, a positive one, for others.  Think about your kids, their kids, your nieces and nephews, your neighbors’ children.  Think about what your parents might have said… or your grandparents.

Another video that I find inspiring is this one called “Entrepreneurs Can Change the World,” courtesy of Grasshopper.

Tell me – how can you watch these two clips and NOT want to get off your lazy arse and do something?  I do… and I’m not really that lazy.  We weren’t put on this earth to sit on the sidelines and criticize everything everyone else does, were we?  Life is all about choices, right?  I’m not so sure… sometimes I wonder if life has become mostly about not making choices.  About allowing things to happen and reacting to them.  We’re pretty good at reacting.  It’s in our nature – the whole fright or flight thing.

But we don’t need a society of reactors.  People who wait.  The people who make a real difference are those who act.  Those who choose.  Those who decide.  Those who DO.

In a world with lots of armchair quarterbacks, backseat drivers, followers, and reactors, I CHOOSE to be a quarterback.  A driver.  A leader.  And I choose to act.

You can too…  you should too.