The Pledge

One way to supercharge your next five years—and possibly the rest of your life—is to join us in our invitation to take the Pledge to collaborate for world peace.

Taking the Pledge is an opportunity to take a risk, based on knowing your capacities and your intuitive faith. To take the Pledge is to take personal responsibility for causing world peace. This requires honest soul searching. We don't recommend anyone take the Pledge who isn't ready to make such a promise.

In fact, please don't take the Pledge unless you know you'll follow through. The Pledge Is a personal promise you make to yourself and the world to create peace by 2014. Only you know if you are ready to make this commitment. Taking the Pledge is an initiation that launches your life into a new level of being.

Before you take the Pledge, you may ask for help, collaboration, resources, ideas, or feedback from others. Consider such a move deeply. Once you take the Pledge, you are fully accountable. You are a resource. You are a key to creating world peace in five years.

It is natural not to know.Thomas Edison didn't know how he was going to invent the lightbulb. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., didn't know the outcome of his struggle for civil rights. Gandhi didn't know how England was going to leave India when he declared that he would lead India to independence. Badshah Khan didn't know that 100,000 Muslim Pathan tribesmen would join his nonviolent army in Afghanistan. Nelson Mandela didn't know how apartheid would end when he began his twenty-seven-year prison sentence. Sometimes all we need is faith in a strong vision to let that vision grow.

Please do NOT take the pledge:

• Because you feel pressured from everyone else doing it.
• Because your favorite celebrity, political leader, or religious leader took it.
• Because you feel pressured by someone.
• Because you want to look good.
• If you do not know what it is to make a promise and keep it.

Taking the Pledge

You acknowledge that you are dedicated to the goals of P:5Y, a global movement that will incorporate millions of individuals. You are taking responsibility for all of your actions. You extend yourself beyond your own personal context and combine your spirit and your gifts with a vision that reshapes humanity.

Taking the Pledge creates an umbrella of purpose over all of your actions. It envelops you in an emerging understanding and generosity that energizes your life. You experience the raw thrill of living for something worthy of your attentions, toils, pressures, complaints, prayers, and celebrations.

Now, you become aware that everything you do matters to our entire planet. Your life is now lived for something. Whatever your concerns may be today, they consume your attention, energy, resources, and life. Upon taking the Pledge, your concerns naturally grow to a global level, turned toward peace.

Until you throw your hat over the wall and declare that you will find a way, you cannot know the full power of making a promise for the whole world. You can know that the Pledge represents a new orientation of your life until 2014, focused on your commitment to creating peace. Although the Pledge is a five-year commitment, it will change you for the rest of your life.

Take a moment to reflect on the Pledge itself.

What is the first thing you would do? It is a wake-up call, an "oh, boy-o-boy!" moment. Upon Pledging yourself, something becomes immediately obvious as the next thing to do, that thing that will further your keeping your Pledge. Let go of your fear. Trust yourself.

When you take the Pledge, you agree to the following: "By Feb 14, 2014, I will have created World Peace as measured by The Economist magazine."

To take the Pledge:

1. Click on My account under My P:5Y.
2. Click on the Peace Commitments tab.
3. Click on the My Peace Pledge checkbox, and "sign" your Pledge with the date you make it.
4. Press the Save button.

Note that, for easy identification purposes, you'll see the "badge" shown below under the picture of users who have taken the Pledge.

I Took the Pledge