My friends, there can no longer be any doubt about it. Humanity is going through the joys and pains of a great awakening. Revelations about what our ruling class has been doing behind the scenes are coming at us fast and furious. While many of us have long felt that the human race is vastly underperforming, we are now starting to understand why. Fortunately, we are also coming to terms with the fact that we have within us the power to do something about it.
The Commitment Club blog will examine some of the big events that are happening in the world, but fundamentally through the prism of how these events contribute to the awakening of humanity. For while there are players like Donald Trump and Elon Musk who appear to have a fair degree of power over the direction our world is going in, I fervently believe the way we live our lives—and the coherence of our individual thoughts, words and actions—is where the power to manage our destiny ultimately rests.
Friedrich Nietzsche, a philosopher I very much admired in my college days and even based my Masters thesis upon, was a great believer in the impact of great men on human history. In my mind—perhaps this is not a point of disagreement with Nietzsche—great men may have an influence on masses of people, but it is the (sometimes unconscious) choice of each individual to change their perception that actually drives human evolution.
My point is that anyone reading this has within them the power to help direct the future of humanity. Anyone who is dissatisfied with the state of the world—as managed by those powerful few that we have somehow given permission to rule us—need only live their own lives better, more authentically, in alignment with their own internal compass, if they are seeking to create positive change. When each of us plays our part in this epic drama on planet Earth, our entire civilization will move inexorably towards the world of our dreams.
The Commitment Club
This brings us to the formation of The Commitment Club, which has essentially been a small Saturday morning coffee shop meetup in Mississauga, Ontario. It was important to me that in-person conversations were at the heart of this project, as I firmly believe that small, intentional communities that meet in person will be the main driver of positive change in the world. Yes, The Commitment Club has arrived online with this blog post, and may eventually expand to other social media platforms and online meetings, but these efforts will be anchored by face-to-face, heart-to-heart conversations that allow for precious exchanges of positive energy and the felt experience of empathy, humility and love.
My personal mission in these coffee shop meetings is simple: fully support people who show up and want to improve the quality of their lives and the lives of others. For me, this involves bringing my curiosity for what each person is passionate about, and exploring ways they might fulfill that passion. If they themselves become clear on exactly what they need to do next, they will be gently encouraged to commit to those actions within a finite time frame. Any success they may have in their commitment to improving their life will likely inspire others to do the same. In this way, the group itself can grow in coherence, and may serve as a blueprint for slowly divesting our energy and attention away from the current ‘beast’ system and towards the kind of world we want to create.
With revelations coming out that our ruling class has not only been more deceitful than we thought, but they are actually engaged in activities more barbaric than we could have ever imagined, it is more important than ever that we have a place to get together and process this information with people we love and trust. These revelations will only get more intense, to the point where no one will be able to deny them or look the other way.
But I believe this is exactly the way things are meant to be, that our history flows between the concealing of truth and the revealing of it. Now, the more ready we become, the more that is revealed to us, until such time as the ultimate truth dawns on us: that we always had the freedom and the power to create exactly the kind of world we wanted to live in, we just didn’t know it.
I look forward to connecting with all of you as this awakening unfolds. More information on The Commitment Club can be found on my website daocoaching.com.
