Pam
02-01-2006, 05:29 PM
I was led to this site by reading the following in an email list that I'm on http://www.PartnersInKindness.org/
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 (http://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.
This is a really neat and useful site. There's an Idea section which suggestions and reminders on how to do nice things for Kids, Friends, the Earth and animals, etc.
It really does show that working together, we can make a positive difference in the world. This is a very uplifting site to visit :love:
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 (http://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.
This is a really neat and useful site. There's an Idea section which suggestions and reminders on how to do nice things for Kids, Friends, the Earth and animals, etc.
It really does show that working together, we can make a positive difference in the world. This is a very uplifting site to visit :love: