In solidarity with President Obama’s first 100 days, consider this challenge:
Beginning today, January 21, 2009, voluntarily, and actively engage in at least one kind gesture every single day until April 21st. Imagine my network, and your network, and their network beginning each day with the purpose of committing one act of generosity–to your neighbor, friend, family, yourself. Or a stranger, an enemy, the environment.
If you are rolling your eyes, or thinking that the California air has finally infultrated my hardened New Yorker self, then this might just be the challenge for you. Or possibly you already wake up every morning with an open heart and consider it a duty to give rather than take. Either way, this experiment is up to your interpretation because ‘the act of kindness’ is defined by you.
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