In one (I’m sure, knowing him, late night) posting on his blog, Matt has managed to start a social media revolution. Sure, the members of the young professional generation are always quick to jump on any revolution wagon. We’ve learned from years of “everybody wins regardless of whether anyone scores” medals and games that teamwork is essential. Yet we are frequently getting distracted by the newest shiny thing. This revolution wagon, however, is not just challenging people to team up, paint some posters, chain themselves to something inanimate and then forget about it the next day. Matt, and a slew of other revolution wagon jumpers (myself included, and not just cause he emailed me to write something and lured me with a copy of the book New Day Revolution!) are instead challenging people to change themselves first to be the change they want to see in the world. That ain’t an easy feat for a girl who will hate Johnny Damon til the day he dies for making what was, in “fairness”, a professional business decision.

In a world with very prolific bloggers who think deep thoughts and eloquently pontificate on very heavy topics, I frequently feel like the Jessica Simpson of social media. There was a time when I liked to convince myself that I was a brilliant young mind that would discover the secrets of the world and make life easier for everyone. The magical silver bullet that would somehow unlock the wonders of unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, and more. Yet as I told my friend over Irish pints last week, I’m more of a philosophizer than a philosopher.

So, as I prepare to tell people how to reach down into the furthest recesses of their souls to pull out some full and resounding change to affect the world around them, I’m finding that that is a pretty lofty goal to take on. I think that one of the biggest challenges, especially when you get all riled up imagining your Nobel Peace Prize speech or epic documentary screening, is that a huge change does not just happen overnight. Experts, in fact, say that it takes at least 21 days to form a new habit.

Sure, there are small things you can do to make small changes in the world, but when you commit yourself to this revolutionary vision of change, the small changes seem..well…small. And 21 days is a long time to commit to the same change daily. By that time you start to wonder…is this change really worth it? Are these small things adding up? Am I even making a difference?

With all these small thoughts, trifling and witty as they were, I started turning the word “small” over and over in my mind. As a youngster, the chorus I used to sing with learned a song that used to move my heart and annoy the hell out of my brain. The lyrics were simple, the melody catchy (like an ad that gets stuck in your mind and never leaves) and we must have sang it daily for an entire semester. Well over the requisite 21 days of habit forming, if you ask me.

The song, “I Am But A Small Voice” tells of the story of many “small voices,” fueled by a “small dream,” coming together to sing for peace, prosperity and love for all mankind. Whoa! Speaking of lofty goals, change for all mankind has gotta be up there with orange becoming the new pink.

A lot of people over the next month are going to be telling the blogosphere that there is a revolution happening. This is true. They are going to write with big mono-syllabic words on the importance of the long-lasting impact each of us has the opportunity to make. This is also true. They are going to tell you that things need to change, and that this change needs to start with you. This, more than anything else anyone will write, is true.

I am here to tell you, in my own simple way, why.

You need to change because even though you are but a small voice, you are a voice. You are a mind, and a heart, and a personality and a life that can make a difference. You might be able to throw around $2 words or you might only be able to muster a $.40 conversation. And you have important things to say, fantastic things to do and a revolutionary role to play in the change. You must decide where you want your future to lead because if you don’t, someone else will decide it for you. You can’t let your small voice remain unheard.

At the end of the day, no matter how prolific or ditzy or intelligent or silly it may be, each of us will need offer our own unique and small voice to speak as one for the change that will happen.

So the question is, will you raise your small voice? Will you be part of this change?