josh Allan

My friend and coworker Kevin said today that he knows that we (meaning the “staff” of Journey, where I work) all want to help change lives.

But I’m not sure I do.

For me, to “change lives” means to develop, to bring about incremental growth, to help someone off drugs, or to stop drinking, or to be nicer to their wife, or to otherwise clean up their life. And while I recognize the obvious value and necessity of all of those things, for some reason his statement helped me realize that I want to be much more about maximizing the potential of humanity. I want to instigate ideas, to catayze thought and action, to be a leadership firestarter, igniting flames of passion in others so they can go out and use their lives to change the world.

Maybe it’s semantics, a small distinction. But for me, it was a light bulb.