Let's Get YOUR Journals Rolling!

Today is the last day to kick off your 30 day challenge!  (Not familiar?  Check this out: http://www.projectpositivity2013.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-challenge-for-you.html)

Kinda confused as to what I'm looking for?  Check out my grandma's journals!:

October

                9^th- I said nice things to my customers.

                10^th- I helped with youth group.

                11^th- I drove my recycling to my best friend’s house.

                12^th- I gave my empty pop cans to my friend’s friend.

                13^th- I put out some popcorn from work for the birds.

                14^th- I helped set up chairs for church.

                15^th- I drove a friend from church to the doctor because the drugs for the procedure makes a person a bit loopy.

                16^th- I fed the bird’s popcorn.

                17^th- I took a lot of pop tabs and education points to a nearby school and put them under my best friend’s grandson’s name.

                18^th- I recycled today.

                19^th- I gave my empty pop cans I get from work to my friend’s friend.

                20^th- When people complain about the newspaper I tell them there is good news in it.

                21^st- I started my mission project for animal rescue thru the church.

                22^nd- I fed the birds popcorn even though they always poop on my car.

                23^rd- I said happy birthday to my nephew on Facebook one day early.

                24^th- I took a couple things from work to add to my recycling.

                25^th- I recycled.

                26^th- I found out about the bag-2-bag program and took my plastic bags there.  http://www.projectpositivity2013.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-twenty-seven-bag-2-bag.html

                27^th- I fed the birds popcorn today.

                28^th- I set up chairs for church

                29^th- I found a couple quarters for a customer who is saving them.

                30^th- I left out some food for a stay cat in my neighborhood.

                31^st- I took my best friend to get a massage and lunch for her birthday.

 

November

                1^st- I took my recycling to a friend’s house.

                2^nd-I gave away empty pop cans so they can collect the money.

                3^rd- I left out food for the stray cat again.

                4^th- I helped set up chairs for church.

                5^th- I roasted a pheasant that was given to me and gave away half.

                6^th- I left some food out for a cat again.

                7^th- I had lunch with my pastor.

                8^th- I recycled.

                9^th- I told people about Project Positivity!

 

One or two sentences a day- It's THAT easy.

I strongly suggest telling me why you're positive act means something to you. (You recycled?  Awesome!  Tell me why it matters to you.)  However, it's not required.  Everyone journals different!

 

Remember!  For everyone who journals for a whole 30 days, I'll donate $10 to an approved charity of YOUR choice!

($500 max)

Day Thirty-one: Marks of Kindness

Today was the last day of the active part of this project.  Now, all I have left to do is research a few charities and spread the word about the journaling challenge I talked about at this link: http://www.projectpositivity2013.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-challenge-for-you.html. I also want to mention that I plan on doing a few more positive things for my community. I just won’t be blogging about them every day.

So what did I do for my very last day?  I wanted to go out with a bang.  I wanted to do something that really got people involved.  So, I made this poster!

I talked to classmates and asked a few teachers to tell their students about this.  And a lot of people responded!

 

 

 

Even the fifth graders I mentor for took part!

 

I would have had more entries, but the volleyball players had a game today and they didn’t want marks on their arms because of it.  But that’s okay!  I think my point was proven.

My point was this:

 

You do little things to make a difference every day. 

However, if we start making a conscious effort, WONDERFUL things are possible.

 

Day Thirty: Twitter Talk

So, because of this project, I’ve realized the impact the internet has on society.   Information is passed around so quickly!  It’s great!  And the things we can do with it…it is unimaginable!

I’ve tried to do things that are easy to do in your everyday life for this project.  I’m really trying to stress that making a big difference doesn’t have to be something incredibly time-consuming or noticeable.  It’s the little things that can add up to extraordinary things.

So today, I followed someone on Twitter.

Yes, I know how that sounds.  How could following someone on Twitter possibly be beneficial to the local or world community?  Let me explain.

@St0pChildAbuse, the Twitter handle I started following, has vowed to donate 5 cents to Love Our Children USA for every follower they get.  By clicking one button, I’ve helped a child in need.  And my good deed didn’t end there, but we’ll get into that later.

First, I want to tell you about this cause.  You see,

Three million children are victims of violence or neglect.

This number is 3x greater if you add the cases that haven’t been reported yet.

Every 10 seconds child abuse and neglect is reported.

5 children die every day because of abuse or neglect.

Love Our Children USA believes in stopping abuse and neglect by educating parents and creating programs that empower positive changes in things such as family attitudes and bullying prevention.

To sum it up:

“The goal of Love Our Children USA is keeping children safe and strengthening families.”

This is the last sentence of Love Our Children USA’s mission statement.  To learn more about this cause, go to www.loveourchildrenusa.org.



I wanted to get this cause as much help as I could.  So, once I followed @St0pChildAbuse, I made sure to tweet what I had just done.  I told my friends to retweet and follow this cause.  And I also tweeted some big people on Youtube about it.

As I’ve said in previous posts, I love watching Youtube beauty videos.  But we YouTube beauty gurus know that it’s what’s inside that counts.  I knew that if I asked, someone would help me spread the word about this.

Meghanrosette on Youtube has 169,994 subscribers and 32,380 Twitter followers.  And she retweeted my cause!  Think about it this way.  If only half of her Twitter followers follow @St0pChildAbuse, that’s $809.50 right there.  And think about her followers that also retweeted.  And the followers of the ones that retweeted Megan’s followers!

(**Since posted, Alexxandraaxo, with 14,974 Twitter followers, has also retweeted my cause!**)

I know that that’s a confusing mesh of words, but just trust me.  That’s a lot of people.

So get involved and get everyone you know involved too.

 

We can keep ALL children safe. Together.

Day Twenty-Nine: “Just Because” Flowers

I’ve received flowers a lot in my life.  My best guy friend got me flowers for my birthday.  My boyfriend got me one for our one year anniversary.  My dad got me flowers one year before a Christmas concert.

But, I had no idea how hard it was to find flowers at 6 o’clock in evening in the fall!  Wal-Mart doesn’t sell any of the pretty ones anymore.  They only sell the autumn flowers with the intentional brown steams.

Those are pretty if you are trying to decorate your house.  But not good enough when you are trying to buy flowers for someone you care about.

I had no rhyme or reason to get flowers for my grandma today.  I just wanted to make her smile.  So, I tracked down the prettiest flowers I could, bought a vase, and made a beeline for her house.

I sat in her driveway for about five minutes, cutting the flowers to the perfect size and writing her a short, but sweet message.  Then, I sneaked into her house (It’s okay.  I have my grandma’s permission to sneak into her house!) hoping that she would be sleeping.

Turns out she was taking a nap on the couch.  I tried to be sneaky, tiptoeing into the kitchen, but it was no good.  She woke up and caught me red handed!

I inconspicuously walked to the counter with the flowers, making casual small-talk.

“So, who got you flowers?” my grandma asked.  I tried to dodge the question.

“I don’t know.  What are you up to?”

“Trying to sleep.  I have to work tonight.”  My grandma works night shifts, which was part of the reason I tried to be sneaky about getting the flowers inside the house.

“Oh!  Alright,” I said, making my way to her for a hug. “I love you!  Bye!”

At first, I could see that my grandma was kind of confused.  But as I walked out the door, I could see that she had a giant smile on her face as she looked at HER flowers!

Mission accomplished.