Post by Sharon on Jul 17, 2010 10:55:51 GMT -5
SERVICE CHALLENGES
1. Give special service to your own family. If you are not living at home, this service may involve roommates or friends or look upon those with whom you have the maximum frequent contacts as fitting this category. Happiness is homemade. Always endeavour to make your homes happy and pleasant places.
2. Give significant service to individuals or groups outside your immediate family.
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EXAMPLES OF SERVICE CHALLENGES
There are so many examples ..... use your imagination! However, always remember to dedicate 30 minutes each day just to You. Schedule no less than 30 minutes each day to do something you love. Keep that appointment, just as you would any other important one.
1. Teach an art or a skill to someone who cannot afford to pay for such training or who probably would not cultivate it without your help.
2. Be a special friend to one or more fatherless or motherless children and take them to worthwhile programs or activities, such as cultural or sports events, camping trips, or outings.
3. Assist the elderly, divorcees, those who live alone, neighbours, or others who may need help with household chores, lawn-cutting, snow shoveling, repair jobs, or yard work.
4. Write uplifting and encouraging letters to a friend. Continue writing even if the recipient's schedule does not permit an answer.
5. Assist people whose activities are restricted, such as those in nursing homes and hospitals or those who have some mental or physical handicap. Visit them, read to them or otherwise assist in any appropriate manner.
6. Assist a child needing help with homework, physical activity or cultural enrichment.
7. Give your time and physical talent to a meaningful project, serving in such positions as coach in an athletic program, youth camp program director, director of a neighbourhood sports clinic, den mother, or volunteer teacher's aide.
8. Participate in an effort to provide books for prisons, hospitals, convalescent homes, etc.
9. Visit a soup kitchen in your area and help serve a meal to the homeless people who are there to eat.
The best way to have a friend is to be a friend, and there is no better way to meet a new friend than by offering to help them.
The services you select should be performed for a sustained period of time and in a quiet, unheralded way, without seeking acclaim and without thought for reward or reciprocation.
The services you select should be performed for a sustained period of time and in a quiet, unheralded way, without seeking acclaim and without thought for reward or reciprocation.
1. Give special service to your own family. If you are not living at home, this service may involve roommates or friends or look upon those with whom you have the maximum frequent contacts as fitting this category. Happiness is homemade. Always endeavour to make your homes happy and pleasant places.
2. Give significant service to individuals or groups outside your immediate family.
3. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
4. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
5. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
EXAMPLES OF SERVICE CHALLENGES
There are so many examples ..... use your imagination! However, always remember to dedicate 30 minutes each day just to You. Schedule no less than 30 minutes each day to do something you love. Keep that appointment, just as you would any other important one.
1. Teach an art or a skill to someone who cannot afford to pay for such training or who probably would not cultivate it without your help.
2. Be a special friend to one or more fatherless or motherless children and take them to worthwhile programs or activities, such as cultural or sports events, camping trips, or outings.
3. Assist the elderly, divorcees, those who live alone, neighbours, or others who may need help with household chores, lawn-cutting, snow shoveling, repair jobs, or yard work.
4. Write uplifting and encouraging letters to a friend. Continue writing even if the recipient's schedule does not permit an answer.
5. Assist people whose activities are restricted, such as those in nursing homes and hospitals or those who have some mental or physical handicap. Visit them, read to them or otherwise assist in any appropriate manner.
6. Assist a child needing help with homework, physical activity or cultural enrichment.
7. Give your time and physical talent to a meaningful project, serving in such positions as coach in an athletic program, youth camp program director, director of a neighbourhood sports clinic, den mother, or volunteer teacher's aide.
8. Participate in an effort to provide books for prisons, hospitals, convalescent homes, etc.
9. Visit a soup kitchen in your area and help serve a meal to the homeless people who are there to eat.
"Life is a gift to you. The way you live your life is your gift to those who came after. Make it a fantastic one."
LIVE IT WELL!!
LIVE IT WELL!!
"What is difficult we carry out immediately...the impossible might take a little longer."