Honk for Peace

As MDY6 takes off with full steam, it should be noted the great number of people that have written and expressed their struggle to start even the first hour.

There is no one size fits all giving back solution, it is individualized and unique for the person.

The trick is to start somewhere with something and go forward from that. Maybe it is an hour walking dogs at the local shelter, maybe it is singing at a nursing home, maybe it is clean out the garage and doing a yard sale with proceeds to a favorite charity, maybe it is a kind word and a bottle of water to a homeless person or maybe it is as simple as honking for peace when you see someone holding up a sign saying “Honk for Peace”.

Bottom line, it is in the action of doing something for others and in the action of giving back that we start and continue to become a Moving Difference.

Peace!

And sometimes it rains….

The best laid plans to do a bit of good, well, they get rained on…. big time.

Sometimes it rains and sometimes you have to stop and wait for the clouds to clear and sometimes you just keep going in the rain.

The point is don’t be discouraged if your plans to do Moving Difference goes a bit off plan… it is ok. Just keep going and keeping do what you can when you can and that is perfect.

So it rained, big deal. So it is hot, big deal. Do what you can and keep being the Moving Difference that you know that you are and can be.

And just keep being a Moving Difference.

 

Moving Difference kicks off!!

Today is the first day of summer and it kicks off the 6th year of Moving Difference!!

WOW!!!

The goal is this year is a million hours plus one more of giving back in our communities to the world!

Check out this link https://movingdifference.wordpress.com/mdy2-how-to-start/ to go for it!

The first day of summer is meant to be outside, so I am keeping this short and talk with you all more down the road!!

Take care and of course, Happy Summer!!

 

 

 

 

MDY6 – 1 million hours plus one more!

Here we are, on the edge of greatness again… Moving Difference Year 6 will kick off in less than a week and once again all of us has an opportunity to give back.

I have to admit, I didn’t see this happening 6 years ago, honestly I thought Moving Difference was an one year project and that was it. An exercise in math, friends and giving back to our communities.

Now here we are – six years later and we are going for it again. This year’s goal is one millions hours plus one more. It was wonderful that we reached over a million of logged hours across the globe last year, so how do you top that? Easy, you do one more hour, hence the 2017 goal of ONE MILLION HOURS PLUS ONE MORE!!

We can all do a little more this year, 5 minutes there, 20 minutes here, and so forth adds up to be a Moving Difference all summer long to the one amazing sunset in September.

So stayed tuned as we kick this MDY6 off in a few days with all the official details and of course, the ending of an amazing sunset that we all are a part of!

Every bit helps – from the road

 Every little bit we do helps. I have spent most of my road trip doing little things that make a Moving Difference.

It just depends on how you look at it. Picking up trash has no glam in it but the glamorous part is after.

All of our journeys have roads, so the few items here and there help make the journey a bit smooth for the next people as well as the environment.

 

MOVING DIFFERENCE is always about the moving and making an impact.

Hope you are having a great summer so far.

Peace.

Out of Town for a bit

Got to leave town for a bit. The trusty MDY5 staff will be taking care of the emails and such whilst I am away. I will attempt to update from the road – but honestly I don’t know if I will be able to do it at the end of the day – I will try!! No promises.

But here is the deal – Moving Difference is about you all going out there and making a difference in the world one hour at a time. And you are doing a great job, so I need to get out there and get some hours in too!!

Keep up the good work and I will catch you for sure in August!!!

Peace and Love.

My wednesday

I promised myself that before my head laid on a pillow tonight, I would write about my Wednesday.

Today was a bittersweet day for a friend I lovingly call Ms L. See it is her mom’s birthday but her mom has been gone for a few years now, so it is bittersweet understandably.

Now I truly appreciate my friendship with Ms. L, she is what I inspire be. She is amazing & awesome and wonderful.

I didn’t get to meet her mom or her dad, but in many ways I have thru Ms. L and it has been wonderful and teary.

So before I lay my head down, here is what you need to know, some of the most inspiring people come from tough bittersweet times.

So remember that. Love to all.

Fruit Loop Zone

Somewhere in the middle of the night my best intentions travel along in my sleep. Somewhere between idea and reality something happens.

I call this the Fruit Loop Zone-insert errie sci-fi music now!

The Fruit Loop Zone is itself a concept theory based i.e. everytime I plan to do something like make cookies for the fire department, something else happens like the AC breaks down and floods the hallway.

The best part about the Fruit Loop Zone is you still get to what you plan on doing but it isn’t by the path you thought it would be.

Enjoy the day, whatever the path.

 

Excuses

 

Sadly I have been very busy with other life things and I haven’t gotten to updating this blog. Plus there was National Ice Cream Day and I had plans to love on some people…. Now I do care about the Blog portion of MDY5, but at the end of the day, I am out of time, out of energy and honestly full of excuses.

I am not a perfect person, I make mistakes, get behind and even make excuses. The culprit sometimes is life gets in the way, other times and most times it is simply I got busy and ran short.

I am sure that everybody has had a week or two that everything in the world seems to be due… yesterday. And speaking of the world, it seems to have its own struggles on a daily basis as well.

So why tell you all this? Well, if you are feeling a bit defeated on your Moving Difference project this summer or you have just too much on your plate today but have the best intentions to do it tomorrow again, well you are not alone. Everybody gets bogged down, even the person writing this Blog!!

Hang in there! You are making the world a better place one hour at a time!!

 

And the World keeps on turning…

Welcome to Wednesday and thank you for doing all your Moving Difference hours thus far. Yesterday post got a lot of email and comments, some interesting, some good and a few bad. I appreciate all of them and I appreciate that most of the writers did an extra Moving Difference hour yesterday with a human touch to it. Thanks!

I think that we can be civil to each other, that we can disagreed with each other respectfully. Peaceful protest, unmeasured influence by standing up and reaching out and simply taking your money elsewhere works too.

I am firm believer in “Money talks, B.S. walks”, so I encourage everybody to look thru their daily purchases and their monthly purchases and make sure that your money also speaks for you correctly.

The world keeps on turning, it is up to the people on it to be the change……to be the Moving Difference.

Have a great day!!