The Difference Makers Global Mission Statement

I awoke early, as I often did, just before sunrise to walk by the ocean's edge and greet the new day. As I moved through the misty dawn, I focused on a faint, far away motion. I saw a youth, bending and reaching and flailing arms, dancing on the beach, no doubt in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin.

As I approached, I sadly realized that the youth was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending to sift through the debris left by the night's tide, stopping now and then to pick up a starfish and then standing, to heave it back into the sea. I asked the youth the purpose of the effort. “The tide has washed the starfish onto the beach and they cannot return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun rises, they will die, unless I throw them back to the sea.”
As the youth explained, I surveyed the vast expanse of beach, stretching in both directions beyond my sight. Starfish littered the shore in numbers beyond calculation. The hopelessness of the youth's plan became clear to me and I countered, “But there are more starfish on this beach than you can ever save before the sun is up. Surely you cannot expect to make a difference.”

The youth paused briefly to consider my words, bent to pick up a starfish and threw it as far as possible. Turning to me he simply said, “I made a difference to that one.”
I left the boy and went home, deep in thought of what the boy had said. I returned to the beach and spent the rest of the day helping the boy throw starfish in to the sea.

Based on the story by Loren Eisley

What Difference Do We Make?

Thoreau once observed that “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” We’ve come face-to-face with this quiet desperation – or what we call The Aching – and we’ve discovered how closely the feeling corresponds to how resolutely we answer that question – “What difference do I make?”

Money is great, but still we seek out... Fame and recognition are nice, but still we yearn for... Romance and travel are terrific, but still we call for...MORE. You're reading this because you've found sincere joy in service and solutions. You already know the secret to happiness and desire to share that secret with your friends, family, neighbors, community, and world.

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are members of a generation that is on the forefront of an expanding world consciousness; our vantage point allows perspectives that our parents’ generation did not have. For us, the world is flat, and for the first time, we are aware of our place in an enormous, global community. But if we were to go deeper, we might see the essence of the word community…

We, The Difference Makers, have a calling to bring our energy and talents into a collective force that goes out into the community and creates solutions.

It’s taken us awhile to figure this out -- 30 years! -- but as it turns out, we can do a lot. Our Project Everlasting mission to increase love in the world, one heart at a time, is constantly being fulfilled before our eyes. We get to witness healthy relationships being restored on a daily basis; people are remembering that everlasting bliss called Love. We CAN make a difference – nay, we ARE making a difference. And so are you, which is why you’re reading this Vision Statement right now, at this critical juncture in your life.

“I made a difference to that one...now how can we do more?"

For starters, please join us at:

http://friendsandenergy.com

The Mission

You are reading this because we believe you are one who holds the same consciousness of Loren Eisley’s evolved boy on the beach. You are a practiced leader of self, but also a leader of other leaders. You have an innate ability and a compelling desire to help people achieve greatness in every aspect of their lives, including spirituality, wealth, relationships, and creativity. You have a track record of turning ideas into gold and you have a thirst to show others how to do the same. The bottom line is, you don’t just ache to someday make a difference in the world – you are doing it right NOW.

You are a Difference Maker.

And so we invite you to join a collective of like-minded souls who hold the belief that our individual world-shaping energies could be greatly enhanced by the principle of 1+1=3. As a collective, we have the power to create a vehicle that speaks results with a clarity and practicality that inspires billions of people to shift into an awareness that we are a global community that is yearning to commune as One.

Our Objectives:

To arrange The Difference Makers collective, a cohesive group of high-intentioned creators who have chosen to devote a significant portion of their lives to increasing love, peace, and sustainable abundance in the world.
To facilitate an idea-rich dialogue within the collective that manifests into extraordinarily creative answers for this question: How can we inspire humanity -- from next-door neighbor to the nation on the other side of the world -- to be the change, make the difference, and tell the story right now?
To design/produce/operate multiple media platforms that allow everyone, including but not limited to The Difference Makers collective, to distribute inspiring, positive stories of world-shaping efforts and results.
To create an economically-viable and profitable business that gives passionately and receives gratefully, always mindful of this spiritual truth: We lack nothing but distribution – our nature is pure abundance.
Your Invitation

If you’re anything like us (then again, we have to ask: how can you not be?), then you know that it’s time for all of us to own up to our respective life purposes and ask ourselves with every ounce of courage within our talented beings:

What am I creating right now?

This is your invitation to join The Difference Makers.