Tonight as I caught up on some blog reading two of the people I follow posted something that while great each in their own right were like peanut butter and chocolate… better together.  As such, I present them to you here in combined form.  First, Carlos Whittaker posted a great video on 7 Tips to Starting a Movement.  Using this great video as an illustration, Carlos points out the following:

1. One man can start a movement.
2. A movement need not be started by the most skilled member of the movement.
3. When beginning your movement and you look around and no one else is joining the dance, just keep dancing.
4. When the one guy who joins your movement slowly fades away, keep going.
5. Before you know it, the people joining your movement won’t even know you started it.
6. When your movement takes a life of it’s own, just let go. There will be no stopping it.
7. The very people who are staring at you like your nuts as you movement alone, will be the very same people dancing the hardest in the end.

The very next blog I read was from my friend, photographer Daley Hake.  Daley's blog entries are typically photos with an artistic eye.  Today was different.  Today he opted instead for a thousand words.  Today he gave his heart in narrative form about something he is passionate about… seeing justice happen for 12 teenage girls entrapped is sexual exploitation in Honduras.  He implored his readers to take up the cause, to begin a movement.  (Read the full article here) 

He asked people to stop sitting on the grass on the sideline watching the dance and to begin dancing.

Way to go Daley.  We're in.  Thanks for showing us how to dance. 

What will your response be?

Compassion, Sacrifice, Passion, Teamwork, Leadership – they are the things movements are made of.  Start one or join one, but don't just stand around and watch everyone else dance!