Manifesto #3: Reinvent You
If not now, when?
You can rewire your brain, and reinvent yourself. Download and install the new programs you’ve chosen. Neuroscience has proven it’s possible. If you want to, you can alter your mind—with words, thoughts, feelings, and visions of your own choosing. Rewiring your brain is a day-by-day process. Using stillness and new thought patterns, you can overwrite the past and alter your future. Now, it’s time to begin what you’ve always wanted to begin.
It’s possible to start creating the New Now you’ve wanted for years, decades, or even longer. If you want it passionately enough, you only need to ask yourself one question. If not now, when?
Creating a New Now begins with trying out new ideas. And seeing which ones resonate with you. Reinvention changes your life. Just about everyone is trying to change their life in some way. You want to feel better, and wake up with new eyes of surprise. The world wants our lives to be renewed, revived, and reinvigorated. Reinvention is as necessary as breathing fresh air, drinking clean water, and taking walks in nature. Use today in any way you desire. It’s time to rewire and recharge your brain, body, spirit. Listen to your intuition. Reaching up to the next level is your daily human project.
Reinvention has become one of the main life-altering ideas changing lives in our culture. Now it’s a part of the life and death decisions centered around how people live, grow, interact, and survive. Recently, survival mode was turned on and fully functioning. Sometimes history comes along and makes adapting to drastic changes a part of everyday life. We now know how other historical and prehistoric events happened. Goodbye dinosaurs; Hello Black Death; So long, Hunter and Gatherers; Greetings fall of the Berlin Wall. In a matter of days or weeks, the lives of countless humans and creatures were transformed. Prehistory turned into history. Yesterday turned into today.
In the blink of billions of eyes, we’ve transitioned from the Digital Age to the Age of Reinvention. Coming along shortly, the Age of Light and Freedom. Everyone has begun rewiring their brains, using thought patterns, ideas, and creative flow. More intuitive modes of communication are now a high priority since it’s a matter of eco-planetary and human survival.
Reinvention is about changing the course of how we respond to hard pressing realities like facing the worldwide humanity-made global Climate Crisis, and the massive cultural shift of a multi-year global pandemic. In an ongoing reality touching every life on the planet, we’re all massively transforming. To debate this fact is like debating whether the sun will rise tomorrow, or if the wind will push clouds across the sky. In this New Now, the reinvention of one’s way of doing and being has become a necessity.
Inventors, creatives, builders, investors, makers, scientists, architects, planters, organizers, healers, visionaries—working together must combine their talents on a global scale never attempted before—to fundamentally repair our damaged world, and our broken social systems. To fix things with hands and hearts, the way they used to be fixed. Global unity must no longer be a faraway pipe dream; it’s time for us to become melded together in the New Now.
Overheard on a street corner in Seattle: “It all started with two people in a room.” It could just as well have been: “It all started with two people on a houseboat.” Likewise: “It all started with two people in a garage.” Ideas exchanged with excitement and clarity are powerful tools. We’ve used these mind tools to arrive here, while our devices transmit instantaneous communications. All the humans connecting and creating that came before this exact historical moment can now be put to good use.
Two people in a room, a basement, or a garage, aligned with dozens of humans in thousands of rooms, have reinvented the way people communicate, build relationships, and relay information. Fast forward to anywhere the globe. Five out of five people sitting on a subway car or a city bus (or in the near future, a high-speed rail) are staring down at a smarter smartphone mobile device in their hand. Each looking at different versions of our world. Our world in turmoil and transition. And of course, along the way we feel sparks of joy and laughter—which makes each of us understand better who we are inside. Everyone interprets life according to what makes them thrive.
The Internet gave us the Digital Age. The Digital Age gave birth to the Mobile World. The Mobile World is connected to your agile moving fingers, and has spawned the Imaginative Digital Everywhere. Everything we experience in the form of streaming movies, music, talks, podcasts—all of it— everything digitized and moving invisibly through the air started from ideas, connections, collaborations, and creations. Across the globe, the Imaginative Digital Everywhere transforms, excites, blends with our rapidly evolving human minds. Cultural transformations can’t be held back. Reinvented minds open cultures, like they’re supposed to do.
Reinvention is about becoming who you’ve wanted to be all along, and becoming who you’re supposed to be, according to you. For the purpose of self-evolving, you are your one and only authority. Reinvention is a choice you make on your own. This is not to say you do it all alone. Nothing is done without ideas reacting to ideas that came before. The trick is to be tuned into ideas that excite you and resonate in the deepest core of your being. Whether heard in conversations, viewed on video screens, or found in books—ideas shift cultures.
For decades now—people, companies, organizations, have all claimed to be reinventing themselves, or talked about the need to reinvent themselves. Some people talk a lot and produce no actions. Some actions pretend to possess meaning. Avoid endless circular meetings about nothing for the sake of your sanity and move toward the opposite. Seek out gatherings and events with people seeking the creative loving world of the New Now. Meet in the place where two people with ideas talk and put dreams down on paper and then use ideas to change the world. Write it down, and then make it happen.
We built and shaped technology, and it’s shaped us. We need to re-regulate our beings. It’s time to fully reset ourselves: mind, body, and spirit.
Now we’re relearning the art of slowing down and pausing. Deeply altering who we are inside, we’ve slowed almost to a stopping point, so that we may begin again as the version of ourselves we’ve been envisioning for years. Scroll down the menu, and choose your selection from the Imaginative Digital Everywhere for the type of life you want. Pause and pick up a pen and a notebook. A pen you like the feel of in your hand, and a notebook with paper pages. Physicality matters. Write down your own pathway ahead through our changing world. Become a dreamer who is also a doer.
People have re-re-re-discovered how “aware stillness” is more important than “distracted busyness.” It’s common knowledge how the mind delivers answers when you let it rest in nature. Culture shifting ideas come to you during those times when you are out walking, staring up at the ceiling, or just sitting on a park bench.
Reinvention often begins with asking the right questions. Question the accepted truths of your culture (which have long become irrelevant). Question your own questions. Question every accepted cultural norm. Question why you’ve been stuck in the past. Question why things are the way they are, and how we got to this point. It’s the connecting of different types of people that want to stir things up, change how things have always been done, that makes where we are in history so amazingly interesting.
People are waking up to the life-changing reality of making drastic changes to create the future world humanity will live in.
It would be amazing to possess the ability to zip ahead a few hundred years in the future and see how we made it through our current worldwide crisis mode, and developed into smarter, wiser, more intuitive, more freethinking, and more tolerant human beings.
In the meantime, we can envision this improved and wondrous future, and can make it with our minds. Which is the exact way everything has ever gotten made in this world. Reinvention is a form of time travel. It allows you to change yourself step by step, week by week. It’s your choice. By changing one aspect of your life, in a year, you’ve reinvented a large part of your life. You knew what you wanted to create, and you reached for it through time. First you envision, then you grasp onto the reality. You were pulled forward by your own future, and these transformations were created by your own effort.
Welcome to the New Now. You’ve been expecting you.
The New Now
Manifestos, Reinventions & Declarations
Revised & Updated
by
Russell C. Smith
Michael Foster
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