Be A Wonder - Every Day!
This means that you do something to make a positive difference in the life of someone else every day. In my last post I gave you a short list of simple ideas to follow. Every item on this list is a small wonder for someone, and when you are a wonder every day, there will be 365 more wonders in only a year.
And the great thing is this: The more love you spread around, the more love will come back to you. You deepen the relationships to the people around you, and build relationships to new people. And eventually, your whole life might feel like a wonder, like a daring adventure. And every morning, there is one big question you will ask:
In whose life will you be the wonder today?
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7 Easy Things You Can Do To Help People In Need
If you are in a position to provide long-term help to those people, you already know that as well as what you can do for them. So this post is for those who aren’t.
Without further ado, here are 7 easy things you can do to help people in need:
- Give them some money! If you find someone who can not fulfill their most basic needs, give them some money if you can - what will not be much to you will make a real difference in their life today.
- Smile at them! Not only at the poor guy above, but at everybody! As long as you are in a higher emotional state as they are, a smile will make them feel better instantly.
- Listen to them! And I really mean listen - without judging them or giving them advice they did not ask for. The most impressive text I’ve ever read was from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen Covey, where he shows what a difference it this can make. When I read this text, I still have tears in my eyes!
- See through their eyes! Really, try to see the things the way they see it. Feel how they feel. Understand why they do so. Only when you do this, you can really understand them, and when you understand them, you have already be of help to them.
- Give them a hug! A hug is the easiest way to express your love for a person. And you can really love everybody. Another piece that still brings tears to me is Juan Mann’s free hugs campaign and how many others were inspired by this idea. Here’s the video:
- Help them with something they can’t do themselves! It must not be something huge - what might be little for you can make a huge difference to others around you.
- Appreciate their results! When they succeeded to do something, or even did it better than last time, appreciate their results. Even if it might be something you could’t do that bad even if you tried to, for them it might be a major accomplishment. And they will be happy if someone notices.
If you have additional ideas on how to easily help others in need, have a hard time with it, or want to share your own story to inspire others, please use the comment form or send me a private message using my contact form.
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How You Can Help People In Need
As long as there is a need for money to be earned, many emerging prople will have to lower their standards, get some job to pay the bills, and invest at least some of their otherwise free time to do work they actually enjoy, until they eventually find a way to make a living from it and be able to quit their dayjob. Or they find some other way to monetize their skills and knowledge until they find out what it is they really love to do.
Those who already have an idea of what their dream would be will eventually summon their courage and take the chance to go for it, either by taking on a new job, or by providing a service to others for money, either directly or indirectly.
But there will still be people who neither find their place in the broken parts of the industrial-style work, nor in the new that is focused on knowledge, information and service to others. Those are the people who at the moment do fall through the cracks of our society, and are the aim as well as the source of a lot of negative energy. They are accused of living on the expense of society, and accuse the “more lucky ones” - as they see it - to live on their expense.
Those are the people that most desperately need our help, but all they get is hate.
What could we do to help those who are in need of help?
Think about this for a moment. Really, think about it for a moment!
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Give them money, so they can fulfill their needs? Great idea. Give them what they would need to buy with the money, so they can’t spend it on something they don’t really need? Would be even greater, if it would not imply that you know better then these people themselves what they need. They know pretty well! What brings us back to the money, after all.
But will money change anything about their situation? It will today, and maybe tomorrow, if they spend it wisely. But what about next week? Next year? Next century? Will you pay for them the rest of their (or your own) life?
Then they should get a job, right? No, they shouldn’t - at least as long as a machine would be a better fit for that job. Human rights, remember? Every human being has the right to do work that inspires them, and that gives their lives a deeper meaning. But first they need their basic needs fulfilled, so they have the bandwidth to even think about what they really want to do.
But how can we ensure that their needs are fulfilled without the need to constantly pay for it?
When you give a hungry man a fish, it will feed hin today, but if you give him a fishing rod, it will feed him for his whole life.
And this is the approach we should apply to people in need, shouldn’t we?
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Musings On Fear And Courage: What Are We Eventually Heading To?
- Fear
- Courage
A short while ago, I would have said that Fear would be the best overall description - with some meaningful exceptions of course, who only prove the rule. But now, I see things changing - and rapidly.
There are more and more courageous people around, people who dare to dream and not only dream it, but live it.
Fearful persons <-> fearful society
A fearful person will most of the time worry about what might go wrong. They could lose their job, their significant other might leave them for someone else, their cat could fall out of the window, and a gazillion of other things might go wrong - or not? I am sure you get the point.
In a fearful society, people live under the constant influence of fear and worry, spread by the media, by the government and by most of their peers. Even courageous people need a lot of strength to not lose their courage.
So in the end, fearful persons and a fearful society will reinforce each other.
Transitioning from fear to courage
Still, there are people around who are really courageous and stay courageous despite all negative influences. Some are known only by their peers, and some are known by nearly the whole human race. And a lot of them are somewhere in between. But all have - or can have - a positive influence on their environment.
It takes a lot of courage to go for your dreams in a fearful society - and a lot of fear to not go for your dreams in a courageous society. But how can we transition our society to a courageous one? Well, we are already in the middle of this process!
As more and more courageous people really go for their dreams - and do so in a way that others recognize -, others will eventually be inspired to go for their own dreams. This is a process that always existed, but at the moment, I see a rapid acceleration. There are a few highly conscious and courageous people who influence millions of others worldwide, and these millions, as they become more courageous, influence their direct peers.
As I see it, we are already at the doorstep where a positive reinforcement cycle will begin that will eventually lead to a courageous society where courage will be the normal state of being - and the one that will be reinforced.
Then whenever someone sinks back to fear, others will be in place to help.
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