Planet Good Radio Interview with Will Marre

In all of my experience I have found that most people have a motive inside of them driving them to do good. Why they don’t pursue it is because they’re afraid. Fear can be a dangerous thing. Fear drives airplanes into buildings. Fear drives us to work 80 hours a week. Fear keeps us in our status quo. Whether it’s fear of being broke, being fired, or not being successful, fear keeps us from doing what we really want to do, what we were meant to do.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak on Planet Good Radio.

What I shared is that we must have the courage to act despite our fears. Let’s face it. I don’t think our fears will ever completely disappear and we can always come up with excuses of why we shouldn’t act, but the real rewards come from acting anyway. Once we release ourselves from our fears and become driven by service, our imaginations will explode. In my book, Save the World and Still Be Home for Dinner, I tell numerous stories of people who have done just that. None of the people I write about have any formal power or resources. Take for example:

• Chris who, though he couldn’t afford to build a school for all the Sudanese Lost Boys and support his own family, nurtured and paid for one Lost Boy’s U.S. college education.
• Martin, a global executive of a multi-billion dollar company, who reinvented himself as a revolutionary leader of environmental sustainability throughout North and South America turning his knowledge of business into a force for change.
• Kim who saved her struggling training school by enlisting the help of every employee and transformed the company into a powerhouse within eighteen months––without a single lay-off.

What these individuals have is courage, will and imagination.

Towards the end of the interview with Tea Silvestre, the question that I always ask others was turned on me. “What’s the best thing you can imagine doing?” It got me thinking. What’s the best thing I can imagine doing?

For me, I think it comes down to one thing. All of my speaking, writing, leadership development, consulting, and business works culminate to this…

Change the purpose of business. I think this is the fastest way to save the world.

So, what’s the best thing you can imagine doing? What can you do to transform your job, business or life to help create a sustainable future for all? If we all will stop waiting for the world to change and start changing it…if we turn the power of enterprise into the power of good, imagine the world we will create together.

Will Marre