About YourOwnDoorStep.com
Your Own Doorstep.com is about exploring the idea that the biggest factors involved in shaping the world, it’s strengths, weaknesses, successes and failures are the aggregate effects of the attitudes and actions of the people that inhabit it. In other words, we create everything around us, both tangible and intangible, that isn’t part of our natural environment.
World View
I like to look at the world as a collection of people and at the human-made aspects of the world as the collective expression of who and what we are as a people. Within this world-view we find both convincing evidence and hope that we, as individual people, can have a profound and widespread positive effect on the state of our world by each making a few small and convenient changes.
Focus
There is a philosophy behind YourOwnDoorStep.com but the site is really about action and focus on the individual, not about philosophy, issues on a global scale or global/social change.
I believe that if we each “keep our own doorstep a little cleaner“, meaning that we each focus on improving ourselves and on making our own tiny little part of the world a bit better, then society’s big problems and larger scale issues will begin to resolve themselves. The mechanism for this is discussed in various places on the site.
So at a practical level, YourOwnDoorstep.com is about personal development and sustainability for conscious people. The larger goal is to create a better world through better people, but the emphasis is firmly on ourselves as individual people.
About Me
My name is John, and for what it’s worth, that’s a lot more information than I’ve ever put on the internet about myself in the past.
I’ve been thinking about the ideas behind YourOwnDoorStep.com for the last 10 or 15 years but I’ve never really felt the need to share them. The more I look at the world though, the more I think that these ideas can be of some use. The way we (as a society) have been living is short-sighted and unsustainable and to me it’s really starting to look like we’re quickly approaching a point of no return, beyond which there may be very little hope for a future that contains meaningful quality of life for most people.
In the past I essentially just didn’t care because at some point I’ll die and none if it will matter to me any more but in 2009 my son was born and as you might imagine, that was a real game changer for me and it really broadened my perspective. Now I have to worry about what the world will look like even AFTER I’m done here because it’s the world he is going to have to live in for many years after I’m gone.
You may think that that sounds selfish – that I didn’t care enough to take action before I had something at stake – and you’d be right. I was, and in some ways still am, a selfish guy. But I don’t want to be any more and YourOwnDoorStep.com is my way of trying to change that and my way of trying to contribute something positive to the world.
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