Rewriting Tomorrow

Lead with love, 

Purpose, 

And 

Action. 

As we move forward with each day in times of change and growth, we must remember that our daily practices must have purpose and action.

As Rachel Cargle wrote,

“Meditate AND call your senator.

Go to you yoga AND got to vote

Breathe deeply AND donate to causes that matter.

Go on a retreat AND go support small businesses

Enjoy your essential oils AND check people on their bulls*it in the community.”

Grab an Acai Bowl and join Fit Bar’s #BetheChange5k, where all proceeds go directly to the Black Lives Matter Foundation. No Rachel didn’t say that, but, I have a feeling if she knew how good our bowls were and about this event she just might.

We are seeing Communities and people from all over the world come together to #speakup and #takeaction in the continued fight to re-structure a broken system. 

For some, the starting point has been self-educating and setting the intention to be more mindful.  For others it has sparked action to change, vote, donate, or directly get involved to fight racism.

If you are still looking to find your voice and how you can offer support to the communities and people that need it the most right now, click here to see a list of 75 things you can do to jumpstart your action.

Some immediate action steps you can take include:

1. Google whether your local police department currently outfits all on-duty police officers with a body-worn camera and requires that the body worn camera be turned on when officers respond to a police call. If they don’t, write to your city or town government representative and police chief to advocate for it.  The racial make-up of your town doesn’t matter—This need to be standard everywhere. Multiply your voice by soliciting others to advocate as well, writing on social media about it, writing op-eds, etc.

2. Donate to anti-white supremacy work such as your local Black Lives Matter Chapter, the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, the NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center, United Negro College Fund, Black Yourth Project 100, Color of Change, The Sentencing Project, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, A New Way of Life, and Dream Defenders. Join some of these list-serve and take action as their emails dictate.

3. Partner with businesses in your community fighting for change. It’s important to not lose momentum and stay focused! Partnering with Foundations and Businesses will help guide you with staying actively present and help keep pushing the movement forward.

We know that fighting racism and achieving racial justice is a marathon, not a sprint. And while it will take us years to undo both the systemic racism in place and our conditioned minds that have given acceptance to a system that clearly does not serve all people, equally; we have to remember to take action steps daily.

Those action steps will become part of our daily practices and soon, habits.

Not once, twice, or three times, but EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

And only our habits as a whole will help us rewrite a better tomorrow.