Reach Out To A Neighbor
The holiday season is a great time to reach out to people. It is kind of…expected.
And some of the people I like to reach out to are neighbors.
If we’re ever in trouble (knock on wood this never happens), neighbors are physically close to us and, if we have a good relationship with them, they might help us.
And it is nice being in a community where people know and help each other.
If you have a spare packet of hot chocolate and an extra mug, consider giving that as a gift to a (tolerant!) neighbor. Or shovel the snow off their walk. Or give them a homemade card. Or simply wish them a happy holiday season.
Make their holidays and yours a bit brighter.
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Ripples From Little Acts Of Good
A visitor to our neighborhood remarked on how trash-free it was compared to other neighborhoods. He thought the city was sending people to our neighborhood to clean it and was quite irate that they didn’t send people to HIS neighborhood.
I told him the truth.
RESIDENTS pick up the trash in our neighborhood.
I, for example, every couple of days, take a little grocery bag and spend five minutes picking up trash.
Which doesn’t seem like a lot.
Except other residents see me (or other people) doing that and THEY then spend five minutes picking up trash also.
And people, seeing us picking up the trash, are less likely to drop their trash on the ground. They are more likely to deposit their trash in a nearby bin.
And that is why we have a fairly trash-free neighborhood.
You don’t have to take BIG actions to change your corner of the universe. Little acts, especially done often, create ripples and can result in significant change.
Take a little act today!
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