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Category: Making A Difference

Knocking On Doors

Published on December 25, 2022

Things I discovered today from knocking on neighbors’ doors after the Buffalo Blizzard:

  • An elderly neighbor, who had an electric stove (but no electricity) had no way of heating up the food she had stored.
  • Two neighbors had no way of communicating (in case of serious emergency) because their phones died (and they were completely snowed in their houses).
  • A really unlucky neighbor’s window got smashed in early into the blizzard (from a patio pole that came loose from wind gusts)—causing blizzard like conditions to scream into her living room of her unpowered house.

I share this, not to share how helpful I was in helping solve these problems, but as a reminder that sometimes, the people who need the most help are the ones who have the most trouble asking.

The elderly neighbor wasn’t gonna trudge through the snow knocking on doors to ask for help—and the neighbor whose window got smashed in was so barricaded with snow that she couldn’t even open her front door without risking it breaking from bowing.

This goes for the people in everyday weather situations just as much as it does for people in the midst of a post-blizzard reality.

If you can find it in yourself to take the initiative, offer help proactively, and make it a regular selfless practice of asking something as simple as: “Hey! Is there anything I can do to help you?”—I imagine you’ll make a profound impact in the lives of some really grateful, humble-hearted people.

Greater Good

Published on December 13, 2022
  • Trolling
  • Blaming
  • Criticizing
  • Demeaning
  • Condemning

Will never come close to the overall positive impact that…

  • Accepting responsibility
  • Glorifying goodness
  • Spreading kindness
  • Role modeling
  • Forgiving

…Will have.

We sometimes do the former (consciously and unconsciously) thinking that it’s for a greater good… but, the real greater good comes from doing the latter.

P.s. Want to really change your world? Become a modern day alchemist.

A Better Tomorrow Made Easy

Published on December 1, 2022

Things you can do today for a better tomorrow MINUS the grandiosity and IN SPITE of being busy:

  • Smile
  • Relax
  • Listen
  • Greet first
  • Go second
  • Hold doors
  • Ignore haters
  • Pay compliments
  • Round up for charity
  • Commit kindness acts
  • Clean up after yourself
  • Clean up after others
  • Check in on loved ones
  • Check in on yourself
  • Ask interesting questions
  • Journal the answers to interesting questions

Just because *the* world is presenting the opposite doesn’t mean *your* world has to.

Shield yourself from *the* world by becoming an atmospheric influence in your own right.

P.s. Here’s a list of 101 Acts of Kindness That’ll Help Recalibrate The World.

Never Forget

Published on November 24, 2022

What thought(s) significantly changed your life for the better? …For the worst?

Good. Now never forget the power of your thoughts.

What’s one of the most powerful things you’ve ever been told? …Most hurtful things?

Good. Now never forget the power of your words.

Who has had one of the biggest influences on your life? …One of the worst?

Good. Now never forget the power of influence you have on all of those around you.

Our World Sucks

Published on August 17, 2022

Wishing the world was a better place is nice—but not useful.

Complaining about how bad of a place the world is—is the opposite of useful.

Talk is cheap. And what our world needs is far from cheap…

What we need is the good stuff… the gold… what we need is more do-something-about-it.

I asked: What’s ONE thing you’ve either added or subtracted from your life that led to more inner peace? Here are the answers. I hope they help.

Imperfect Help

Published on August 3, 2022

There are no perfect people helping imperfect people.

Only imperfect people helping other imperfect people.

Don’t let perfectionism hold you back from helping—it’s a lie.

You’ll always be imperfect and now is always a good time to help—no matter how imperfect you may feel.

Today’s post was inspired by this tweet from Jeremy Ginn. Thank you.

The Immortality Of Kindness

Published on July 1, 2022

Have you ever been the target of a random act of kindness?

Have you ever wondered how far back the inspiration for that act goes?

Maybe not far at all.

Maybe that stranger just spontaneously acted.

Or maybe it goes back centuries… back to a medieval time when a farmer gave a homeless fellow some crops for free—just because. And they paid it forward and so did the next fellow and so on.

Maybe kindness ripples through time like waves in a pond—temporarily elevating each water particle touched by the wave until gracefully returning them back to where they started.

Maybe it’s that temporary elevation that gives us the perspective we need to carry on with a lighter heart; a more caring heart; a more kind heart.

For it is only when we are elevated that we can more clearly see what was holding us back down below. And we gain an understanding that becomes a new guiding light for when we find ourselves back down—as we inevitably will in life.

But, we are not lowered to where we started—no.

We are lowered with new eyes. Eyes that have seen and felt an existence at a higher plane. And once we see what is up above, we can’t unsee it; once we feel what is up above, we can’t unfeel it.

And maybe this is the cause of perpetual kindness. People infectiously sharing what elevated them, onward and outward to the outer banks of society and for the duration of all time.

And maybe all we need to do to activate that sometimes seemingly dormant desire is remember that beautiful perspective we each once had.