Ponder today: What kind of difference do I want to make?"
Welcome! This is a new series I am starting because of the Ultimate Blog Challenge in October. It is something I have wanted to introduce for years - literally - and now is the perfect time.
It
will be a daily quick read - and then a compansion as you consider the
prompt, the question, the suggested list making and the quote throughout your day.
I am so glad you are here. I am so glad you have chosen to increase your creativity and creative thinking. Bravo!
October 9, 2013
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Have you considered what kind of a difference you want to make in this world?
What would you do to make that difference if you knew, absolutely, you would succeed?
List:
Brainstorm a list of at least 10 activities you could do that would make a difference in the world in the short term, medium term and long term.
Prompts:
I have decided one difference I want to make is...
If I had a week to live, what I would do to make a difference is....
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Julie
Jordan Scott is a writer, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her
word-love themed art will be for sale at First Friday starting in November, 2013 Downtown
Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different
social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus
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I wrote this yesterday as if I was speaking to my fourteen-year-old daughter, Emma. I imagined a friend was mad at her... which, by the way, turned out to not be the case AT ALL!
These past choices you thought were the right ones, the faded brick colored blocks that created the foundation you walk upon now daily.
You can’t let them bother you.
What you can do, though, is pick your foot up and put it down. You can learn from the choices made that weren’t, after all, the best for you.
You can forgive yourself.
You may request forgiveness of others.
You thought your choice was the best choice for the moment. Some may fault you for this. You may let their judgment go and pray they will, eventually, return to you if not with compassion at least with a willingness to let it go, too, to let the bother be exfoliated from their system.
Don’t let it bother you because the bother lasts so much longer than the originating choice and follow through did. Make reparations. Smile. Breathe deeply and aim for now and your next nows.
Don’t let it bother you that others don’t understand you and may not even want to take the effort to understand you.
Don’t let it bother you that the past you is more than a tiny bit embarrassing to the now you.
Some people may have found her cute. Even though you abhor that word, cute, let it be, my love, just let it be.
Keep writing away any pain that comes when you forget to not let it bother you.
Then pick up your foot and put it down. Repeat. Again. And. Again.
This is my also my Ultimate Blog Challenge Writing for the Day. Be watching for my challenge posts which will include Writing Prompts, Writing Tips and General Life Tips and Essays. This is Blog 9/31 for July!
Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & this Summer will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.
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My mind is coming up with a huge blank which I find rather embarrassing.
Perhaps this prompt is meant as an assignment rather than a “reporting in!”
The thing is, I used to make random acts of kindness a way of life.
I have allowed homeless people into my home to shower and fed them and gave them my number if they needed me. Once a man in a wheelchair fell backwards in a busy Los Angeles intersection and I leaped out of my car – heels, hose and all – and together with another man who I don’t know if he spoke any English, righted him and sent him on his way.
I still don’t know where my strength came from to lift him, but I put my arms under his armpits and on three, I lifted the man and my “partner” lifted the chair.
I haven’t done any of this lately.
I have helped friends out in times of need. I have hosted couch surfers, often surprising them with little trinkets (like a loaf of bread for an Austrian surfer who mentioned how much she missed German bread.)
I babysit, housesit, dogsit for loved ones without even thinking of charging them. I volunteer for the school district. I am an encourager of nearly everyone I meet. I am a complimenter of nearly everyone I meet.
I look into stranger's eyes and I smile, sincerely.
I wave at crossing guards.
Do any of these count? They don’t feel random enough so today’s task is to get random. Act kindly. Repeat and Continue.
Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & this Summer will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.
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