How Do We Make a Difference When the System Feels Broken?

Has the health service got any better? Is the education system more fit for purpose? Have the potholes got any shallower?   I recorded a version of this episode at the start of the year and never released it. Six months on I have re-recorded it, because I think it is something you need to hear. This one is not scripted. It is a plea. I have spent the whole of this year asking you to ask better questions, and this is me turning the question on myself: how does one person make any difference to a system that feels broken? I talk about why voting for a different party keeps giving us a different shade of icing on the same cake, why I think we have abdicated responsibility for our own finances and our own communities, and what happened when I stopped worrying about climate change and started a Facebook group called Englefield Garden Greenies that ran for three years. I come back to the talk I gave in 2015 on responsibility, enough and contribution, and to a night drive through Cuba that changed what the word enough means to me.   Then I ask you for something. What questions should we be asking? Who should I be speaking to? What could you bring, whether that is an idea or a skill? Email me, comment, or shout at the podcast. I would rather start a conversation than sit here waiting four years to put an X on a piece of paper.   EXPECT TO LEARN: - Why business ground to a halt around the last budget, and what that pattern says about the months ahead - The halfway point between fixing the whole world and staying inside your own bubble - Why swapping one government for another keeps producing different flavours of vanilla - The sequence of questions that opens up when you start with "how can I make more money?" - How a Facebook group called Englefield Garden Greenies started, and what it achieved in three years - Where AI genuinely helps with a local problem, and where it takes you straight back into your own bubble - Why donating to charity can be a way of handing responsibility over rather than taking it on   TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Change, chaos and disruption 01:31 How has the year been for you? 02:24 Why uncertainty stops people making decisions 04:10 The New Estate, and the conversations I always wanted to have 05:05 A world on the edge and the end of empires 07:03 Two-party politics and different flavours of vanilla 08:08 Twenty years on: potholes, wages and the health service 10:07 Not a revolution, a change 11:07 What local action could actually look like 12:22 South Kilburn and the Englefield Garden Greenies 13:34 The question I want you to answer 20:23 Why I nearly did not release this 22:42 Responsibility, enough and contribution 25:04 Cuba, South Africa and what enough really means 27:04 Why writing a cheque is not contribution 30:57 We can still shape a wealthy life   FOLLOW THE HOST VICKI WUSCHE: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickiwusche/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VickiWusche Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vicki_wusche/ Take the Escape the 9-5 Scorecard: https://bit.ly/EscapeThe9-5Now Join the Wealthy Life Community: https://bit.ly/Join-WLC   LISTEN TO A WEALTHY LIFE: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/VickiWusche Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/a-wealthy-life/id1617293196 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13lVRTAioD5mR4XUiylAk8   #AskBetterQuestions #TakeResponsibility #CommunityAction #AWealthyLife