Top 10 Reasons To Become a New Radical

I have recently re-organized my blogging, and articles that were previously posted here can now be viewed at http://compassionate-jim.blogspot.com.

This blog will be constrained to exploring "The New Radicalism". The term sprouted from the evolution of micro-loans and other financial incentives to help the poor find ways to help themselves.

I am taking the liberty of expanding that definition, as there are many ways in which we who are not involved specifically in Wall Street wheeling and dealing can nevertheless make profound differences in the lives of the poor.

Our professions and trades have every bit as much currency as currency itself does, and my personal experience with the truly desperate is that getting in the trenches and shoveling dirt carries a message a micro-loan does not. Both are useful, and both are required, I believe.

Author and pastor RichardBolles (What Color Is Your Parachute) insists that the elusive, profound meaning in what one does to earn a living, is found precisely where God's needs and your satisfaction with what you are doing is so great that you lose all sense of time...intersect.

Author Julia Moulden gives these "Top 10 Reasons To become A New Radical" as originally posted on The Huffington Post.

01. You will change someone's life.
02. You will change your own life.
03. Your skills are needed.
04. You will discover the power of synchronicity.
05. Your view of the world will change.
06. You will influence those around you.
07. You will meet exceptional people.
08. You will feel connected to something bigger.
09. You will play a part in saving the world.
10. You will die happy.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying way to find that elusive meaning in what I do to sustain myself, than to give to those who so desperately need...

What I have.

You can read about the little boy whose short, sad life inspired me, in this blog - or in my sister blog, http://compassionate-jim.blogspot.com.

Regards,

Radical Jim