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Lend a hand
Think it’s necessary to trek miles and dedicate hours and days
to help someone? Think again…
A frail or weary neighbor has a walkway full of snow and you need exercise.
Opportunity is everywhere.
Serendipity and imagination are the essential ingredients of doing the right stuff. Consider
that when trash that missed a receptacle crosses your path.
Consolidate trips to save fuel.
Conserve water and energy
Buy a clothes carousel or clothes line. Hang wet laundry outside and as it
dries, it will add moisture to the air.
Beautify
Tidy is good. Related to the Middle English
word for tide, tidy embraces a range of lovely sentiments. Trim, cut, prune, paint, clean, but do something at home, or help
your neighbor with a project.
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Who has the most difficult job in the world? Are you doing
all you can to make life easier for those who tackle tough tasks, such as trash collection (one of the most dangerous occupations)
and cleaning (everything from schools to hotels)?
Consolidate trash and make life a bit easier for collectors. Minimize
the position of your trash barrels and recycling bins and those of one of your neighbors.
Leave a hotel room, school
lavatory, airline toilet as clean as you would want to find it if you were the next person to enter.
Resist,
re-equilibrate and reach out
Turn the other cheek. Accentuate the positive. Take a deep breath. Good advice,
all…but the best remedy for being the recipient of someone’s bad humor is to reach out to someone else –
not to complain, but to do something that brightens that person’s day.
Sweeten the day
Commit
to 24 hours in which no mention of any personal trial or tribulation is given to anyone.
Hire a neighbor, a local
person...keep those dollars circulating in the community.
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