Being The Driver Of Your Journey

It's much easier to take action if there is a guidebook and a guide—someone to show us the way, and to encourage us and teach us and hold us accountable.

For example, it's easier to learn to paint if you're part of a weekly "learn to paint" class with other people. You just have to show up and participate—the work itself is planned and directed by someone else, and you have the people in the class who can help keep you accountable.

But much of the time, you have to be at least somewhat self-directed, without the benefit of someone guiding you. For example, what if there is no "learn to paint" class in your town? Even if there is a class, you have to take the initiative to find it and sign up in the first place.

The same is even more true with animal advocacy, because there are fewer guides and fewer guidebooks when it comes to ending factory farming. If you want to help end factory farming, you have to do the initial work to find the thing that's going to be a good fit for you. You have to be self-directed enough to get started.

Now ideally, one of the best things you can do is land in an organization or a group of people who can then help guide your efforts going forward, who can offer encouragement and education and accountability.

But to find that group, to join that group, to make space for it in your life... you have to do all of that. No one is going to do it for you—you have to be the driving force.

(And if your first attempts don't work out, then you'll have to do it again.)

So today, ask yourself: are you proactively guiding your life towards the type of animal advocacy you want to be engaged with?

Are you being the driver in your journey, or are you a passenger in the car of wherever society wants to take you?