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Have plants and flowers in your home.
- Plants and flowers brighten our environment, bringing life
and beauty to any space. They require regular watering, ritually bringing us into their world and expanding ours.
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Help others move.
- Moving is a cathartic labor intensive process. Often, the aid
of extra person-power and/or a larger vehicle is necessary.
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Help out with your friends' children
- It's hard to raise children in today's world. Your friends
need all of the help they can get.
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Help push a stalled car.
- A person is having car trouble and is pushing their car
to a safer area, or they need a "push-start", pull over and
lend a hand.
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Invite friends over.
- When friends visit, we share our home and open our lives
to them. Our hospitality is a treaty of friendship.
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Keep toxins away from infants.
- Your child is very curious and wants to get into things...everything. Storing harmful chemical cleaners and other toxins away from children may save their lives.
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Keep your bedroom clean.
- When our bedroom is clean and organized, we can
effectively organize the rest of our life; our clothes are
cleaner and less rinkled, we can find our car keys and
friends want to visit and maybe even sleep over.
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Learn to play an instrument.
- There is little in terms of personal enrichment that is more
enriching than gaining the ability to play music. It has been shown to improve memory capacity in children and it literaly brings music to our lives.
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Listen to yourself!
- If you find yourself trying to make a difficult decision, sit down, alone, and think. Listen to what your sould is trying to tell you and do it!
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Love people
- Showing sincere love makes everyone happy:-)
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Maintain someone's home while they are away.
- Leaving home for a number of days can necessitate help maintaining animals, plants, mail etc.; visiting the home of a traveling friend periodically, gives the appearance that someone is living there, thwarting would-be robbers.
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Make art.
- Whether you have specific skills or are artisticly inept, creating art is good for the soul.
The mind awakens spiritual energy within and it comes out in the form of visual and tangible stuff that others can see. It is magic.
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Make baked goods for others.
- When baking for others, we focus our thoughts and energy on
them and they are able to taste our affection.
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Make gifts.
- When we make holiday or birthday gifts in the kitchen, or
create items from discarded materials, we save natural
resources and reduce potential waste, while giving from the
heart.
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Massage others.
- Our lives are stressful and the human body becomes fatigued,
giving someone a massage is a generous and caring gift.
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Meditate.
- When we meditate, our mind and body are able to be quiet,
contemplative or just completely blank. Insight often comes
to those who seek it and inner peace ferments.
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Open Relationships
- We are all connected. Why do we supress are feelings with everyone but one person at a time? if we worried less and expressed love more all are pains would be healed. I'm talking about all relationships not just sexual. meaning from all levels of communic
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Pay back personal loans.
- People who lend us money are good people who should be valued
highly, and above all, paid back. We can move forward with dignity allowing us to make closer, more authentic connections with people.
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Plan your family well.
- Putting some thought into various family options before one
is forced to, serves us and future generations as well.
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Preserve memories by taking photos/video of family and friends.
- As we grow up and older, memories begin to fade and people move away or lose touch. By taking photos or video, we can keep these memories and preserve moments that may become lost forever.
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Put friends up for the night.
- Sometimes friends need a place to stay. Allowing them to stay
at your home is very kind and enables one to spend more time
with them.
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Read to children.
- Reading to children on a regular basis gives them a love of books and stories, it develops their hearing comprehension and
their imagination and helps make them more intelligent people.
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Refill the ice-cube tray.
- It is frustrating to go the freezer needing ice, only to find
that the ice-cube tray has been emptied and not refilled. Refilling the tray is an investment in the future coldness of soft drinks, coctails and water for you and others.
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Rent or borrow things you don't use often.
- Renting or borrowing things that you don't have a regular need for saves money, storage space, and keeps the world less cluttered with unnecessary items. It is best if we can share the use of these items so we don't have to build and trash as many.
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Return things you find.
- We all lose things from time to time, such as wallets, purses and keys, and we can empathize with others when it occurs to them. Often a lost item is invaluable to us, but worthless to others. A goodhuman seeks to return lost items.
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Say "hello" to your neighbors.
- When you see your neighbor our in the yard give a little wave, smile, and say "hello".
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Share your newspaper with others.
- Newspapers are disposable items that have a usable life of one day. Almost everybody is interested in one section or another so spread the news and share your paper. No need in buying 5 copies when 1 will do.
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Sing or whistle out loud.
- Singing and whistling lightens the spirits and spreads one's
infectious joy. When one makes a "joyful noise", one creates
positivity and optimism.
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Sing your child lullabies.
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smile at a stranger
- smiling at someone you don't know yet spreads goooood vibes and smiles are contagious!!
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Speak up to litterbugs.
- Don't let the people around you carelessly throw garbage on the ground without saying something to them about it. It just may take a little public humiliation for them not to do it the next time. Litterbugs need to hear from you that LITTERING IS RUBBISH!
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Stop fights between others.
- Being a peace-maker, by stopping a violent struggle or encouraging resolution to an arguement between friends, may
possibly be intrusive and even dangerous, but it positively affects social change immediately and it is very heroic.
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Tailgate less in traffic.
- Tailgating may be an attempt to send a message to another
driver to move over or speed up, but it endangers others and
is a sign of impatience.
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Take collections for friends in need.
- From time to time one friend or another may become broke. Taking a collection - among friends - of food and/or small amounts of cash can really help a friend in need and it isn't too taxing on any one person.
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Telecommute.
- Working from home saves fuel, reduces pollution and traffic
as well as being easier on you and your family.
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Tell jokes.
- Telling jokes gives a burst of fun and laughter to social
settings of any size. Humor takes the pain of life away,
making it brighter and more enjoyable.
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Think good thoughts
- By thinking good thoughts we promote positive energy within ourselves and toward the outside world.
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Tip service workers 20% or more.
- Service workers work tirelessly to please us, tipping well
acknowledges this and benefits real people, not some faceless
corporation.
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Tip street performers.
- Street performers of any type, talented or not, enrich our
culture and should be rewarded for their gift to us.
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Try not to SPAM search engines, web sites or individuals.
- SPAM is electronic junk mail or any unsolicited and irrelevant
email communication. This creates an unbelievable amount of
unnecessary web traffic that slows real communication and wastes
our time as we must continually work to rid ourselves of it.
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Use cloth diapers.
- They say that 1% of all American landfill space is occupied
by disposable diapers which take up to 500 years to decompose. Cotton can be reused 100 times and decomposes in
1-6 months. Reduce landfill glut and save natural resources, use cloth diapers.
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Use email to communicate with people instead of paper.
- Letters and notes on paper typically require the cutting down of
trees and they produce trash. Using email allows others to read
your message when they have time and it doesn't tax the environment.
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Use protection.
- Sex is fun, but it can also be reproductive and dangerous. Using "protection" puts the fun back in sex.
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Visit friends in jail.
- People in jail are in mean and unfriendly environments which
may affect them adversely, a friend who visits can make a
world of difference in terms of keeping them in touch with
their lives out side and helps keep them grounded.
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Volunteer
- You can volunteer your time to pick up trash on the highways or in a park, write letters to congressmen, or teach children about nature. Explore all the ways to get involved, and pick something that excites you.
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Work to maintain long-term friendships.
- Distance and time can seperate old friends. Making contact
once in a while keeps the friendship alive, rather than
losing a friend forever because of neglect.
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Write
- Write everyday to let your feelings out and to have a better understanding of yourself, situations and relationships. write for fun and creativity. write stories and poetry. share your writing with others.
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