Choosing Community Over Individualism

What you measure is your mission.

What community demands is the best of you.

And we have to ask ourselves, "Am I just consuming life, or am I actually cultivating life."

I believe who we are is way deeper than what we do.

What you measure is your mission. Whatever business you are doing, if all you are measuring is your bottom line, well that's your mission, the bottom line. But if you are measuring something that has to be measured through the story - meaning actual change, actual real life stuff happening - well, then there are some things that can only be measured by the story; they can't be measured by a number.

In a culture that elevates what we do and the value of the individual, we struggle to see beyond just ourselves. We struggle to see the bigger picture of who we are.

We think we are supposed to be passionate about what we do, but when we are passionate about who we are it changes everything about what we do.

At the core of our identity, we share a reality that we are all human.

We are not designed to be alone—we are designed to be connected.

We have to ask ourselves: am I just consuming life, or am I actually cultivating life? Am I bringing life to my neighborhood, to my community, to my city—or am I just consuming it?

“It feels inhuman, to make a life, about me.”

We think we're supposed to be passionate about waht we do, but when we are passionate about who we are, it changes everything about what we do.

So many of us are just trying to be really good at what we do, that we're sacrificing our humanity.

I don't just want to be really good at what I do; yet, at the same time, be really weak at who I am. Because I have a belief that if you're really at who you are, you're gonna be incredible at what you do.