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Help People Set Goals and Reach Them"I Owe It All to My Partners In 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
In 2005 the idea occurred to me to do a peace walk in Italy. During the one year it took to plan it, word about the peace walk spread and almost seventy individuals from around the world decided to take part in it.
Unfortunately, because of unforeseen circumstances, when the time came for me to pay for my travel expenses, I had no money to buy a plane ticket or to make arrangements for myself once I was in Italy. Miraculously, just a couple of weeks before the walk was to actually begin, money started showing up in my mailbox. Envelopes with donations as small as three dollars came from mostly anonymous sources.
All totaled, the money was just enough for me to purchase a round-trip airline ticket from my home in Iowa, in the middle of the United States, to Italy. After paying for the ticket I was once again broke, but a friend loaned me his sleeping bag and I left for Italy, trusting that Divine Providence would continue to take care of me. This was a huge leap of faith because I am a middle-aged woman and have never taken a huge risk like this before.
The distance of the peace walk was about 120 miles and was divided over eight days time. I spent time before and afterwards touring the country. Altogether, I was in Italy for three week, but because of the kindness of the individuals around me, most of whom I never met before, I never went hungry and never had to sleep without a roof over my head. What's more, I never had to even ask for help.
This was an incredibly transformative experience for me. With each step of the walk I felt deep peace and deep love. Although I never knew where my next meal would come from or where I would stay that night, I never experienced a moment of worry or fear. The simple acts of kindness from strangers made me feel as if I were traveling with my closest friends and family in an environment as familiar as home. I had never been to Italy before, but I felt as safe and as secure as if I were in my own backyard.
I can now truly relate to what it feels like to walk in complete trust and love. Having experienced it, I can never again compromise and live without it. It is a feeling that we should all strive for because it is the essence of peace. But it cannot be accomplished without acts of kindness from those surrounding us. So now I shall always strive to do my part. Just think, if we could each treat the strangers around us as if they were our beloved family, we could all duplicate my experience and walk in peace . . . each and every day and everywhere that we went, whether it was to the mall or to the other side of the world. Walking and living in peace would no longer be a dream. It would be a reality. It is for me, and I owe it all to my partners in kindness.
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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
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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