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Monday, October 1st, 2007

Unite! for Blog Action Day

Blog Action Day is on October 15th. On this day bloggers from all around the world will post articles on a single topic which will be the Environment. The point is to get people thinking and discussing about one topic on one day that effects all of us. Be sure to read your favorite blogs that are involved and if you have a blog yourself, please commit to joining this revolutionary movement that is being done for the first time ever.

For more information go to BlogActionDay.org

The Grand Finale

Friday, September 21st, 2007

world on a finger

I have loved doing this blog over the past couple of months but I have to move to more pressing issues in my life and career. In trying to Change the World I need to begin taking more action which is what I plan to do.

I am going to have this post up for a few days with a final message.

Look outside yourself. I have written many posts on being introverted or extroverted and various charities, groups and organizations; about character and humanity; about people and the way the world interacts with you and you the world.

My idea I want to present to you now is to see the extroversion inside of you (isn’t that a contradictory statement). I have said before that there are people who can travel the world and be in incredible places and experiences and not even look outside themselves.

The reason I love to stare up at the stars or watch the sun rise and set is because it reminds me of my place in the universe. I am nothing without those around me as far reaching as the other side of the world. A person is nothing without other people. To look only within yourself is to not except the power and importance of those who you may not even know.

To live solely for yourself is vain but to live for yourself and the world is empowering. Helping those outside your own comfort zone actually has benefits for all, including yourself. The Golden Rule is called golden for a reason.

As I sit here outside by a fire, after having a long-and-great conversation with an old friend who just left (came to keep me company while I am sick), I remember the most important aspect of my life is other people. Without them life would be meaningless so to devote myself to others brings me great and fulfilling Life Meaning.

I say tomorrow, you wake up and do your usual routine. Drink your coffee; tread mill for fifteen minutes; whatever. But then during that day I want you to try something. Try following an old rule of the Boy Scouts and do a good deed for someone else in that day. A good turn for someone else in the long run is a good turn for the world and yourself.

It does not have to be a great and powerful showing to your fellow man but a simple gesture of selflessness can bring a great change if done enough by enough people. It could even Change the World.

To keep up with me in the future head over to my personal blog WarrenGreeley.com/Blog to read my future posts. They are on topics of business, writing, and generally trying to change the world.

Thank you for reading. Thanks for caring.

we have a way | blog action day is october 15th

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Evoke thought in the people of the world. Now we have a way. Do you have the will?

blog action day | october 15th

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Through reading ProBlogger I stumbled upon a new really innovative idea for the online community to raise awareness. This is something I will be definitely be involved in and hope others who read this and have their own blog will follow too. What the concept is, is a Blog Action Day in which bloggers from around the globe write on a topic to better our world. The first topic for October 15th is the Environment and the Blog Action Day website calls on a mass amount of bloggers from all over the world to write about the environment in their own right, how they view it.

There has been a media frenzy lately on the blogosphere about how it is comprised of amateurs. This may be true to a certain extent but amateur does not mean idiot. Blog writers are becoming the new source of information and readers are responsible to check the source just like with a periodical or television news network. Now this is an out of the ordinary idea to get the amateurs and the professionals, the elite and common man all talking at once about the problems this world faces. It could have a major impact. Check out more and see for yourself if you want to get your blog involved at blogactionday.org.