My Hidden Agenda

Agendas…everyone has them…right?

Everyone wants to sell you something, convince you of something, lead you somewhere, indoctrinate you, hypnotize you, brainwash or proselytize you.

So, what’s my hidden agenda for this blog?

What’s the cost that it seeks to extract from you, the potential reader (and misfit)?

What should you be afraid of, be hesitant about, or run for the hills from?

In a word…nothing.

Unless, that is, you’re scared of thinking.

Because the hidden agenda of this blog is just that…to make you think.

But many questions will be raised…and then it’s up to you to find the answer…your unique answer.

So, what’s in it for me, you ask?

Oh lots of goodies.

I get to do what I love most…write, create, contribute, share my thoughts with the world and maybe make a few friends in the process.

Fame and fortune?

Hmm…not really considering that as a distinct possibility.

An opportunity to make a difference…to change the world?

Possibly.

But that depends to a large extent on you…the reader.

And what you do with these ideas that I am writing about.

Because I can’t change the world alone.

These ideas aren’t mine…they aren’t novel, or new. They’ve been around far longer than me.

And that’s a pretty long time.

Perhaps their presentation in this blog is a bit fresh.

But the idea of making an impact did exist prior to Revolutionary Misfit, or even Costa Rica Guy.

Today there’s so much noise. So many people saying predominantly the same thing.

It’s all about success, happiness, fulfillment, peace, love, tranquility…and there are countless blogs with countless ideas about how to achieve all that.

And those things are all good.

It’s just that this blog comes at it at a slightly different angle.

The impact angle. With all that other great stuff as a byproduct of making impact the impetus.

Instead of the other way around, which seems to often be the predominant mode of thinking out there.

That is, make success driven happiness the priority and then impact will follow.

I’m not buying it…anymore.

Why wouldn’t that be the case?

Because that’s not the way it’s set up to be.

That’s not the way the universe deems it to be.

Call it the law of reciprocal returns, the golden rule or whatever you want.

Here we call it impact mindfulness.

And we practice it by (1) prioritizing impact over self-interest, (2) embracing the Big US, and (3) removing impact blinders.

So, the only hidden agenda is to create a small army of revolutionary misfits who put this idea into practice.

And the world will never be the same.

There, that’s my hidden agenda.

Still hesitant, or scared?

If not, join us!

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