Tell me:
- one good thing you did to change someone else’s life this year
- one good thing you received help to accomplish
- one good thing you were blessed to be a part of
- one good thing you will keep doing, no matter how difficult it gets
- one good thing you did to change the world around you
- one good thing you could do today to meet your goals
- one good thing that has not left your heart, not for a second
I firmly believe that all it takes sometimes is one good thing to get us through the day, or the month, or the year.
Or a lifetime.
What’s your one good thing?
1. fostering orphaned puppies and getting them to a point where they can be adopted by some family looking for a puppy.
2. The vlogging community has been so very helpful with information about how best to make videos.
3. Writing my journal.
4. Sent money through an organization working to help the lives of women around the world. Unfortunately, I ran out of extra funds, so had to quit.
5. Finish the work that I have waiting for me.
6. The two sons I buried.
1. participated in the walks/5K’s etc to raise money for research.
2. my triathlon. the man at the runners supply store was invaluable.
3. my friend shauna’s recovery from breast cancer.
4. walks/runs to raise money for cancer research.
5. started honestly recycling.
6. stay awake at work.
7. my love for my friends.
I started to fill this out…but it seemed like I was boasting.
I will quietly continue to do whatever it is that I do, which will never be close to enough. :)
This post definitely made me want to do more, though, because I’ve been very selfish lately.
I don’t think it’s boasting, per se, though I understand and respect if you feel that way. It’s just good to hear what people do with their lives to make the world around them better.
It actually gives me ideas about what I can do, how I can push a little harder, and what the people around me value. And sometimes talking about this stuff makes us remember what is possible, what we managed before, what we were willing to do even a month ago.
But keep on keeping on, girl. I’m proud of you.
Spent lots of time with a friend who was contemplating divorce.
Linking my blog to my web site.
Attending the birth of a friend’s child.
The right thing…whatever that might be in context.
Pick up litter when I see it.
Did several little things and crossed them off my list.
The love of my animals.
1. Offered free healing work and food from my garden to a struggling young couple dealing with lots of difficulty.
2. Writing the first draft of my book – three people contributed portions of various chapters, and two provided endorsements.
3. I performed a wedding, just one this year, and it really touched my heart. (see blog post from last wk)
4. I’ll continue working on my own health in every way that I know how. That includes physical, emotional, mental & spiritual aspects of health.
5. I stay positive and optimistic about our ability to shape the world into something we really want to live in. I see that helping people to do the same.
6. Work on the book again, so I can finish the first draft once and for all! I’ve been procrastinating all day, gardening and playing with bunnies instead.
7. My sense of having invisible helpers with me at all times. Guardian angels, you could call them.
Meg, this is an excellent post request! I love it when you focus on the positive and get us to do the same. You’re good at that.
1. I started writing my brother-in-law, who is in jail and hasn’t touched another human being in a decade.
2. Staying on top of a crippling depressive episode.
3. The arrival of my son into the world.
4. Loving my family.
5. Gave up Starbucks for a while and donated the money I saved to a rape crisis center.
6. Continue to choose compassionate responses.
7. My stepson and my son.
Um, OK this is going to be hard because I am a born cynic but I will give it the old college try…
I was a free nanny to my four nephews boys for 6 months while my sister worked.
Moving out of my parents’ house.
A reunion of dear, old friends after 6 years apart.
Attending school. I will finish even if I’m a 80 year old graduate.
Donated school supplies to local teachers/schools.
Remind myself that perspective is everything.
My paternal grandfather.