Empowerment gives you the freedom to do what makes you happy and the power to get things done. We believe that with the right tools everyone can empower themselves, because apathy is obsolete. All the tools you need to learn and do anything you imagine can now be found or created through the Internet. There are no more excuses. You're not limited to "What can I do?" The question now is, "What do you want to do?"  Where there's a motivation, there's a means. The revolution was not televised: it is online. You are no longer an isolated person defined by limitations. You are now connected to all human knowledge and empowered  by possibilities. The age of empowerment has put you in the driver's seat. What you choose to do is up to you. If you can read this, you already have the tools you need to begin. Empowerment's tools make it easy to plan missions to get things done. You can share ideas you believe in, learn skills to do something, get tools you need and find people to collaborate with. Empowerment is the strength within you to be and do anything. Empowering yourself is choosing control of your own life over   complacent apathy. EmpowerThyself.com is a network that helps you to find ideas you believe in, skills to do something about it, tools to use, people to work with, and missions to get things done.

The Empowerment Symbol represents each person's ability to empower themselves and our opportunity to universally empower humanity.

Apathy Is Obsolete "The greatest danger to our future is apathy." —Jane Goodall “You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete.” —R. Buckminster Fuller Apathy will steal your life away. Life is too short to waste it feeling apathetic. Apathy is a feeling of being useless, lethargic, and unable to control your own life. Apathy is state of learned helplessness where you know what you want but you feel unable to do anything about it and it slows you down like weight on your shoulders. Apathy is a great defeater because it makes it difficult to get things done and feel happy. Whatever you aspire to do, apathy hinders you. Apathy is the daily grind, the work-a-day world where the chief conern is to simply make it through the day rather than enjoying it. It is a state of being controlled by external pressures and material constraints. It is when aspects of your life that do not give you joy or fulfillment take over, making your hopes and dreams seem like distant and wistful fantasies. Apathy or Empowerment. The choice is yours. Allow the world to choose your path or help to choose the path of the world. The path of the apathetic life may be easier but the path of the Empowered life is intensely more rewarding. You can either live up to your dreams, or just keep dreaming of what you could become and the change that you could make. Social Apathy "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." —Mohandas Gandhi Personal apathy is feeling powerless to make yourself happy. Social apathy is feeling powerless to contribute to others. Overcoming personal apathy is a prerequisite to overcoming social apathy. To help others we must first get our own affairs in order. By meeting our own needs, we free ourselves to help meet the needs of our friends and our society. Being empowered helps to empower society. It can serve as an example to others and helps to spread the message.

"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct."

—Frank Herbert, Dune

We are still at the ground level of this new phenomenon.

The future is a shadow cast by what you stand for today.

What Empowerment Means To Humanity

To be empowered is to see the world for the winnable game it is and ourselves for who we are: the world’s true superpower. We live today in a man-made world shaped by people motivated by ideas and what has been made of the world can be remade or unmade by anyone willing to be empowered. There is nothing final about civilization as we know it that guarantees it will continue on its present course.

Without empowered people motivated by sound ideas, the world is like a rudderless ship adrift at sea. Empowerment is throwing off chains that no longer exist, working up confidence to take the steering wheel, and setting a course for a better world; Activism is finding out the ship is captained by pirates, not worrying about walking the plank, and leading a mutiny.

We don't know, so let's find out!

Ideas of a greater existance have existed since forever.  Ideas like Morphic Resonance and Collective Effervesence that challenge a possible Consensus Reality have arose in the last century that really question what existance is and how humans really fit with each other.  In order to note what human social behavior COULD be instead of what IS we have to approach our lives with attention paid to creative thinking about our personal existances.

Nobody knows, so let's find out!  The world can be anything whatsoever we may wish, we just have to figure out what we want!  

THE EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE

People think and act in proportion to what they believe is within their power. An empowered person learns and does more than the apathetic person believes possible. Anyone who desires empowerment can obtain the tools to attain it.

Awareness Demands Action

Awareness without doing something to act on it is frustrating.   It makes you aware of problems you feel unable to do anything about. Some people even say it would be better not to know about the outside world. Ignorance, to this way of thinking, is bliss. If they can’t change it, they don’t want to hear about it. Can you really blame them?

Education Increases Awareness

Real world education makes a person more aware of the world around them.  Nothing brings a problem or a solution to light quite the same as working firsthand with it!  As someone gets to know more about the fundamentals of the world they become better armed to Get Things Done, and as they get more and more experience they get more and more Done.  Learning is the first stage in Doing!

People Don’t Do Things Because They’re Discouraged

People mostly want a better world, It is not as if we’re purely selfish and self-involved. We have a deep disempowerment that saps our will to change. Our attitudes would change if we put power back into our hands and minds and voices. This is the recipe to awaken the the most cynical and jaded. Put hope and action together again. Keep hope alive and people will have the courage to change things.

Make Doing Easy And People Will Take Action

Empowerment is about connecting seperated ideas and actions into a coherent opportunity for everyone, not just the most dedicated. Acting on an idea in a productive way can addict a person to the drug of influencing the world. All it takes to create more empowered individuals is to give them a taste of the real power that lays dormant inside each and every individual on the planet. Once people are given an inch they tend to take a mile!

The Institution of Empowerment

Empowerment is our institutional answer to corrupt governments, manipulative media and criminal corporations. It is a movement of people who embrace their own power and responsibility to make the world a better place. It is an organization dedicated to serving people with empowering technology to enable people to transcend outdated limits and unnecessary evils.

The Empowerment is a peoples’ institution which exists solely to serve in a way government, media and corporations do not. The Empowerment is dedicated to serving people regardless of politics, beliefs or economics. Its mission is to provide innovative services for the benefit of all people. Anyone can use the Empowerment for personal development, organizing communities and changing the world. The empowerment is a public institution open to anyone’s participation designed to bring people together in free association instead of subjugating anyone to a hierarchy under elite control.

The Empowerment: Corruption’s Institutional Opposite

Instutions Are Pillars Of Society

An institution is a lasting system of great necessity that underpins our civilization. Institutions have staying power because we need their services to make society work. While the leading forces that fulfill institutional roles may come and go with each passing year or election, the institution endures as long as it is needed.

Our Instutions Are Failing Us

Government, media and corporations are the institutions which dominate our political, social and economic lives. Today these institutions are surrounded by controversy and criticism from all sides. Critics point to deeply systemic corruption that goes to the core of how our society works.

Even people enjoying historic prosperity feel that the problems we face are symptomatic of a growing sickness. There are many competing diagnoses of what is wrong and prescriptions for what to do about it, but most everyone agrees that something must be done. The question is, whose responsibility is it? Who can we blame for not dealing with this?

It’s Our Fault: We’re Failing Ourselves By Not Participating

All institutions are at risk of corruption when the citizenry, audience and customers they exist to serve abdicate responsibility to the managerial experts holding the reigns of institutional power. Without the people’s vigilance to keep them honest, institutions become ends onto themselves unable to resist the temptation to abuse their power and influence. Apathy reigns amongst the public, and few see themselves as playing any part in changing anything important.

Why Me?

“Once upon a time Little Red Hen asked the other animals to help bake a cake. They were too lazy to raise a finger. Hen did all the work herself. Then Little Red Hen pulled the sweet-smelling pie out of the oven. Everyone who refused to help make it volunteered to help eat it, but she no longer needed their help to eat her delicious pie all by herself.”

Many people feel like changing the world is for other people. Why should they worry themselves over things that don’t seem relavent to their daily life?

The moral of the story is that life is sweeter for activists who take action than for the apathetic who stand aside waiting to see what happens.

New Institutions

Never destroy the pillars of belief and society: Replace them. Think like an engineer who supports a structure with crumbling foundations: build a stronger framework that takes over the load while the obsolete parts dissolve of their own accord.

Doing Nothing Is Something. Why Not Do Something Good?

Apathy is a self-contradictory because passivity is itself an action. Ask any caffeined and sugared child to sit still for long and the effort required to do nothing becomes apparent.

Your Empowerment

YOU DECIDE YOUR AGENDA

Your Empowerment is what you choose to do with your life. What will you do with all that power? Anything you choose. Empower yourself to lead your own movements because nobody can tell you what to believe, but everyone can use help and help each other achieve all goals.

Use Your Power For Good As You See Fit

No matter what your ideas and interests are, the Empowerment is just a vehicle to propel you forward in the directions you choose. Skills, resources and technology do not lean politically except to the resourceful.

Empowerment Doesn’t Tell You What To Do

There is no central ideology of Empowerment save the principle of empowerment itself, which is based on self-empowerment rather than obeying some central authority.

You choose your agenda. Empowerment just helps.

When people are weak and abdicate responsibility, our institutions run amok: our families disintegrate, governments rule us, corporations own us, media deceives us and schools indoctrinate us.