In the past few months, a lot has happened on my PeopleCount.org journey. There have been a lot of worries and concerns, and at times, I’ve been trapped in my own thoughts. Other times, it’s been exhilarating and full of inspiration and communication. Whatever I’m experiencing, I always come back to the same reason I started PeopleCount.org: All of us can work together designing our future and moving forward to achieve collective goals.

Understand why we started PeopleCount.org
When I started PeopleCount.org, it was because I had come to realize that very little in life is real. Our culture, our points of view, our institutions, our ways of working–though we hold them in place with our understanding, actions, even our complaints, they’re all up to us. If I accept certain occurrences as static, I won’t try to change them. The future will unfold with most of the same old problems. However, when I accept everything as malleable or fluid, starting with my conceptions of myself, possibilities arise.

This is the concept behind PeopleCount.org. Thinking that our lives, ideas, and institutions are set in stone is a poisonous mindset. Taking on a new mentality, one of change and fluidity, is the key that will allow users of PeopleCount.org to succeed in crafting major change.

Understand the underlying mission
Here’s a real life example: I thought I was a software engineer, not a leader. Those thoughts held my career in place and kept limits on my actions, my impact, and my contribution. Then, I searched for a new job, promising myself I’d find something that would make a bigger difference.  Inside that promise, this possibility emerged and took shape as PeopleCount.org. The key to transforming me into a leader was not studying leadership or learning new skills, it was giving up my notions of who I was, giving up my beliefs in my limits.

This path, and this project, is bigger than who I was. To be as big as I needed to be, I kept noticing how small my thoughts were and what that said about me. I kept refreshing my view with the possibility of PeopleCount.org, the vision and my promise to fulfill it, and I kept sharing it with others. The tasks at hand suddenly seemed approachable, doable.

PeopleCount.org is a disruptive idea. Our current system leaves us feeling like our opinions matter little and an unresponsive, remote government is in charge. But what if that’s just a feeling? Just as I was willing to be something other than what I knew myself to be in the past, why can’t we allow the government of our dreams to be accessible to us, just by voting our positions and inviting friends to do the same?

How you can help
I have dedicated my energy and my savings to the mission of PeopleCount.org over the past seven months. One thing that helps me make the investment is the question, “What’s money for?”  We buy things we want, right? Well, what I really want is our world productive, peaceful and prosperous, where joy and love abound. We’re almost there but we keep seeming to miss it with a war, a tech or banking bubble, global warming, or some other circumstance that interrupts us working together to move forward. PeopleCount.org will allow billions of us to communicate coherently so we can work together, regardless of the circumstances.

This is just the beginning. There have been many who have worked with me to make this dream a reality, contributing ideas, graphics, testing, joining the social media —  sticking around and seeing PeopleCount.org through. In the end, your donations remind me there are plenty of people who are willing to invest a little bit to build something great. There are plenty of people willing to create a wonderful future together. And with enough donations, we will grow.

That’s my promise.

If you’d like to join me and my team on the PeopleCount.org journey, please invite your friends and consider contributing to our cause. For more information, check out our donation page.

Thank you in advance. I look forward to sharing more of the PeopleCount.org journey with you.

What do you think? How do you feel about the PeopleCount.org journey?