For most of the world, Fourth of July is just a Monday. Another Monday of this hot long summer. A Monday.
Some people in America celebrate Fourth of July with a BBQ and backyard picnics, some travel with friends and relatives, some travel by themselves, some still have to go to work and pay the bills like the rest of the world.
Happy Fourth of July – even if it is a boring Monday morning!!
It is the second Saturday of MDY5 and things are clipping along. Things are more than great, awesome is an understatement.
And it is all because of wonderful people like yourselves taking an hour and ding something good for someone else. It is quite a gift as time is precious.
It is nice to see that good with all the bad that is happening in the world, that people are making the difference to overcome, to be the good.
Walking a family dog for a cancer patient, or cleaning the tub for an elderly person or cleaning out your closet to give to the local charity store doesn’t seem life changing and news worthy but it is because you are doing it.
It would be nice to see the New York Times headlines said Nothing bad to report today but we have these projects that need some people to come and help at. Thanks!
But we don’t live in that world, we haven’t for a long time. I will hope for it though, and maybe we will some day. After all,7.5 billion people should be able to figure this out.
Keep plugging away at your hour a week, we will be here for you all summer if you need ideas and of course to report your hours too! (Quick note on that: if you are reporting your hours, please put “Reporting Hours” in the subject line and please give a detailed description of what you did and how many hours so we can log it properly. Thanks!)
You are amazing and wonderful people keep up the good work!!!
Quick note – On the weekends – we are just going to post once because most of you happy people are out doing your hour and then some making the world a better place. (And it is better to have you out there doing your hour than reading a silly post that you can read at work on Monday!)
On a daily basis, the common question of why to do Moving Difference comes up. Basically it is a two parts – why are we doing it and why should you do it.
To answer the first part of why we do it – for us, it is simple. Moving Difference is one of the many ways that we give back to the world. We can’t afford to cut a check to every worthy charity on earth, we can’t help every worthy cause in the world. We can’t do this by ourselves. We struggled for years to attempt to try to do it all and we still struggle in this attempt. We are humans after all. Moving Difference allows us the opportunity to give back in a greater sense of it all, as in we all are giving back together. United to making an impact and striving forward in many areas to making a moving difference. Plus we do our own MDY hours outside of working on Moving Difference. We have cleaned parks, walked dogs, worked at a food bank, amongst the thousand of other things. We are happy to do it and love doing it, it is our passion.
To answer the second part of why you should do it. Well, we have heard lots of good reasons and a few reasons of “Mom & Dad are making us” but all in all it is a personal reason to give back that fuels it. Moving Difference doesn’t exist with you, period. By doing Moving Difference and doing your hour a week over the summer, well, it is back to the simple reasoning that you too can’t afford to help every worthy charity and cause in the world, no one human can, but a bunch of us can together. The world is a very small place and life is very short, so your reasons to do Moving Difference might overlap with someone’s else or might not. That doesn’t matter, what matters is that you do something that gives back to your community, your neighborhood, our world. Doing is the key, you doing whatever your heart’s desire to help give back, well, welcome to being a part of Moving Difference.
Remember there is always free cheese in a mousetrap, good luck with your Moving Difference hours this weekend, see you on Monday!
“Sometimes the heart knows things that the mind can never explain.”
Opening email this morning caused a bit of a heart stopper. I was rusty on panic until I saw the inbox say “122,854 new messages.” I felt that whole lump in the throat, my hands go cold and my heart basically stop as my brain was trying to figure out if it was real or not.
Panic was and is an understatement. We are working hard to reply back to all those emails today (or this week) so please bear with us as we try to answer them as fast as we can.
This is probably a good time to bring up that this many emails is a good thing and while I was surprised by the number for just one day, I expect even more in the coming days and weeks. This means Moving Difference is doing what it always set out to do – being a moving difference in this world.
So please write if you have a question or if you are reporting your hours or if you wanted to humble brag about what you are doing for your hour this week. Just know that we might have a few emails in front of you, but we are coming!!!
And if you are wondering about how many hours were done in the first day, I will email you later…ha!Ha!
Happy Wednesday y’all!!!!
This is the last #Sunday Thought of MDY3 –
It has been an amazing summer and tomorrow is that amazing sunset that we all have been working towards….
one more sleep before the last sunset of this summer…
one last Sunday to go and do, one more thing, one more hour or even all of it again…..
It has been a busy summer – I honestly in my heart am a bit sad that it is at the end….
I even cried this morning thinking about this MDY3, its hours, its goals, its people, its everything….
As I sip this tea, I think this last quote should be directly from me.
But I am lost for words…… the only thing I can think is –
Thank you. You are amazing people doing amazing things. Thank you very much.
Truly thank you.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
With SO MANY MANY MANY MANY people out there in the world doing the Silly Hat Big Clean this weekend – (Big thank you BTW!)
this quote is for you!
“Grab your coat, and get your hat,
Leave your worry on the doorstep,
Just direct your feet,
To the sunny side of the street.”
Dorothy Fields
Of the many hours reported, there are many different projects going on in this world.
We don’t have enough time in our lives to tell you all the stories we have read and happy tears of joy this MDY3 has brought into our lives.
We humbly thank you for doing all the hours that you have been doing and look forward to the rest of the summer as we are passed the half-way mark and heading for home base- that wonderful sunset –
Here is something to think about –
Officially we are in the middle of summer, half-way there and half-way back.
The good intentions of June have passed thru the murky waters of July and are now staring you in the face with the heat of August…. and there is a list of things to be done by September too!
It isn’t what you planned in your head, when you started this year or even this summer. The truth is life happens.
But that doesn’t mean you failed or are a failure. You adjust and attack again or adjust and simply come away with a different viewpoint.
Failure doesn’t define us, it strengthens us.
If you haven’t gotten your Moving Difference hours done yet, take a breath. You got time and you got this…
Even a minute, even just one hour of Moving Difference is something to be proud of.
Don’t let the doubt of failure be your hallmark.
Have the courage on the path that you have set out for yourself. You got this!
Sometimes I am the mouse, sometimes I am the cheese….
Moving Difference 