The Goodness Campaign

Welcome…to your Goodness Campaign

Every choice you make and action you take is important and has the potential to bring powerful, positive changes into your life. From interactions with family and friends, to that person beside you, to the ways you treat your environment and yourself; an incredible potential of goodness exists. Look closely…

• Could your health, relationships, and choices be better?

• Are you as patient, compassionate, selfless, and generous as possible—with yourself, as well as others?

• What would make you happier and more fulfilled?

• Are you as successful as you want to be in your endeavors?

• Have you dreamed about making a difference in your life…and our world?

Experience the positive power and energy you can create by choosing to share the goodness that is within your reach every day. Imagine what you could accomplish: becoming healthier, repairing relationships, helping others, restoring balance to your life and environment, and finding lasting fulfillment and happiness…the list goes on and on! Opportunities appear every second, don't let another moment pass you by.

Participating in your goodness campaign is an easy way to intentionally grasp those opportunities and do something good for yourself, and just as importantly, for someone else. Consciously making an effort to live with more good thoughts and actions will inspire and encourage you to notice the absolute beauty that surrounds you everyday, and be thankful.

Over time, good gets better!

Once you start your campaign, great things will happen. You'll be stronger, healthier, and feel energized, invigorated, renewed, and happier. Over time, your good actions will create more positive perspectives, opportunities, and outcomes in your life, and improve every life you touch.

"Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this; it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful." –Anne Frank

We cannot edit our past, but we can correct the present and right (write) our future.

We, all of us, have made mistakes or not lived up to our full potential at one time or another. These things tarnish relationships, the way we feel about others and ourselves, and can make us live with regret and guilt. Well, consider today a fresh, blank page where you grab a newly sharpened pencil and begin writing the rest of your life's story…letting go of what you can from the past, correcting the present, and moving forward with goodness.

This world is a wonderful, bountiful home we share, but...

There seems to be a shift away from goodness—from being as good as we can be…personally, and on a global scale as well. Beliefs indeed vary; values and circumstances may be unique; but ultimately, we share common bonds of hope, love, happiness, and wanting to live a healthy, purposeful life. Living with goodness is essential in order to make these things a bigger part of our lives. You could almost say it is a tie that binds each of us to the other; and one by one we can make a difference by positively focusing on that binding tie.

simple — effective — contagious

Simply share two acts of goodness: one for yourself and one for someone else, then write those down. That's it! Do this for one day and pass it on, and you will be an official participant in the Goodness Campaign! These acts can be as simple as focusing on good, positive thoughts, spending some extra time with a loved one, or sharing a smile. You can have a healthy meal, take a walk, and offer a sincere, heartfelt thank you; volunteer, donate your time and finances, and if your spirit moves you, pray—the sky’s the limit!

I know, I know, on the surface this seems too simplistic, too trivial. How can taking a few moments each day to care for yourself and others with small, meaningful thoughts and actions affect any real change? The truth is that we can easily become so overwhelmed with everyday life that we may overlook the simple ways we are able to contribute something good…and those things, when added together, develop powerfully and exponentially.

One thought or action of goodness is like a single drop of water…in and of itself, rather insignificant. However, when enough drops come together, water becomes powerfully life sustaining. The same is true with good thoughts and actions…they create mighty waves that weave around our world, sustaining and enhancing everything and everyone they touch. The best part of living with more goodness is that the wave you create ultimately finds its way back to you.

Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, as echo answers to sound.

–William George Jordan

The more you give, the better you will be…physically, emotionally, and spiritually. You don't have to do things that are huge or cinematic, simply genuine. I encourage you to jump-start your campaign by participating right now for just one day, and start changing your world!

• Positive change is in the air.

• One thought, one intention, one action.

For yourself, your loved ones, and the world.

Your Goal = One Day

Remember the question I asked on the first few pages? If you see opportunities to enhance your health and relationships, make you feel happier and live with greater peace of mind, will you grasp them? Well, right now is the perfect time to find out! Find a couple of minutes and a quiet spot; maybe listen to your favorite song, grab a seat in a comfortable chair, and contemplate for a moment on what you can do today to achieve this goal. It will only take a few minutes; you'll be glad you did!

The first part of your campaign will consist of doing something for others; a family member or friend, a person you just met, or someone half-way 'round the world. You can include anything you have done to help nature as well. The world is at your fingertips; just be sincere and from the heart…the ideas will come!

Here are some examples to inspire:

 If getting irritated while driving describes you to a tee, make a conscious effort to stay calm and patient in situations you normally wouldn’t.

 Perhaps you’ll see a person struggling to carry a bag; offer to help.

 Maybe you can donate some of your time or money.

 Help a friend or say sorry to a loved one.

 Make room for a person to sit next to you on the train, smile and say hi, or pay that toll for the person behind you.

 Hug those close to you and tell them how much you love them—your spouse, children, family, and friends.

 These are just a few examples, what else can you think of?

The second element of your campaign will be to do something good for yourself—eat a healthy meal, exercise, take some time out to relax, say a prayer of thanks, or work on a project or goal you may have been putting off…you decide! Just don't get so caught up in deciding what to do that you don't do anything. Remember, these actions can be small or large…they can be fun or something a little more on the serious side (i.e. apologizing or forgiving someone).