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Help People Set Goals and Reach Them"The Road to Kindness"
The author wishes to remain anonymous
Edited by Shmuel Greenbaum
Printed with Permission of http://www.PartnersInKindness.orgThe author wishes to remain anonymous
Edited by Shmuel Greenbaum
These e-mails have made a big impact on me. They have caused me to think about how small acts of kindness can really make a difference.
Many people have good intentions and plenty of goals; they even put these goals in writing and tell their friends about them. But their follow-through doesn't match their intentions.
The fact is that life has a way of interfering with our goals: a child or an elderly parent gets sick; an emergency occurs at work; a storm slams our city; many things that we can't control continually throw off our plans.
My idea - and it was by no means a solution to anything - just a little idea - was to encourage people to make a habit of doing one nice thing for someone one day a week. I chose Monday since it is the first day of the work week and the hardest day of the week.
When we do something nice for someone else, we make their Monday better - and ours too. And it's easy to remember: Do One Nice Thing Mondays.
One thing led to another, and I started a website, www.DoOneNiceThing.com. In a short time we have had visitors from all over the world.
It's amazing how small actions can lead to big results. In just a few short months, the DoOneNiceThing.com community has donated thousands of cans of food to the hungry, thousands of free mammograms to women who could not afford them, hundreds of books to schools damaged by the hurricanes, hundreds of gifts for hospitalized children and much more.
In November we challenged our visitors to donate canned food to food banks and offered to match the biggest donation can for can up to 100. At the end of the month, we were delighted, and overwhelmed, to learn that our members donated thousands of cans and other food items. (We donated 100 cans, as promised.)
Our website has more than one hundred different nice-thing ideas that anyone can do to make Mondays better. Each week we highlight one idea and shine the spotlight on an exceptionally kind person who is nominated by our visitors.
It is important to honor people who do kind things for others. Our website honors one special person each week. By the way, nearly all of the honorees resist being spotlighted: "Oh, not me. Others do much more." I manage to persuade them by pointing out that they will inspire others and serve as a role model to children. Our website visitors nominate people they know for the honor, people who are quiet heroes helping people in a myriad of ways every day. They're wonderful.
Thank you for your uplifting emails. I look forward to them.
For further information visit:
www.DoOneNiceThing.com
or e-mail: DTenzer@...
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"Help People Set Goals And Reach Them"
From Kindness: Making a Difference in People's Lives: Formulas, stories, and insights
By Zelig Pliskin
Printed with Permission of Shaar Press
From Kindness: Making a Difference in People's Lives: Formulas, stories, and insights
By Zelig Pliskin
Printed with Permission of Shaar Press
One of the major keys to success in life is to make and reach goals. You can’t reach a goal if you don’t have one. So the act of making a goal or many goals is the first step to making things happen in your life. And if a person sets tremendous goals but doesn’t do anything to reach them, he won’t get very far. This is like sitting down and planning a world tour, but never buying a ticket to start the trip. Wishful thinking can be exciting, but you are still exactly where you were before. You never even started.
When you make and reach goals yourself, you realize the vital importance and value of doing this. People who haven’t made it a practice to keep setting goals can realize its importance by thinking about how much more they could have done by setting goals and how goal-setting has enabled others to achieve and produce.
Use your awareness of the value of goal-setting to inspire other people to do likewise. This one factor can help transform a person’s life. I remember receiving a small pamphlet from my friend Kalman Packouz on goal setting. It didn’t say anything especially new, but since he went out of his way to send it to me, I was motivated to delineate some major goals for myself. That was twenty years ago and reaching those goals made a major difference in my life. Kalman, I am grateful and I thank you. You, the reader, will be the recipient of similar gratitude as you motivate and influence others to make and reach goals.
Keep asking, "Have you put your goals into writing?" Some will be open and share their goals with you. Others would prefer keeping them private. If a person tells you that he doesn’t have specific goals encourage him. Highly motivated people won’t necessarily need to write down their goals. They can visualize them inscribed in their mind. For most people, however, it’s preferable to write them down and frequently review them.
It helps to share one’s goals with an encouraging friend or coach. Make it your goal to be there for others. You might be able to help others by encouraging them to make broader and more far-reaching goals. When someone is starting out on the process of making and reaching goals, build up his belief in his ability to do this. Smaller goals lead to larger goals.
If a person seems hesitant about making goals, discover his blocks and help him overcome them. You can ask, "What stops you from setting goals?" By probing and finding the obstacles, you might be able to help this person overcome them. Some people fear setting goals because they feel that they might not reach them. You might say, "Setting a goal that you were previously afraid to strive for is progress in itself. Every goal you try for gives you greater knowledge about how to improve in the future. Your not succeeding is part of your life education on how to have greater success in the future."
What are your goals for helping others set and reach goals? How about putting them into writing so they will empower you and help many others!.
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