"Help From Home" - Volunteer Without Leaving Your House!

Change the world in just your PJs! How cool is that? And it's true, easy and wonderful.

I received a nice email from Mike Bright who runs the Help From Home website - here is what he had to say:

I run a website called 'Help From Home' which provides information on easy, no commitment volunteering opportunities that can all be performed from the comfort of a person's home. Almost all of the 450 plus actions listed on the site will cost nothing or very little to complete and take no more than 30 minutes to accomplish. Some can even be performed in under 10 seconds without getting out of your favourite chair or pyjamas!

I run it on a purely altruistic basis with no intention of making or wanting to make any money out of it. I started it back in January 2009 and have been gaining positive feedback about it ever since.

What I'm attempting to achieve is to change people's mindset by enabling them to see that volunteering for worthy causes can actually be conducted from within their own house, rather than the more traditional approach of joining a group of people at a certain place and a certain time to perform actions that benefit others. Most of us spend a lot of time in our own home, where potentially some of that time could be devoted over to helping charities or worthy causes. If people were able to donate between 10 to 30 minutes of their time to such endeavours on a one-off, daily, weekly or monthly basis, just think how much of an impact collectively it would make into the goals and aims of initiatives that are attempting to make the world a better place to live in.

In closing then, I believe the opportunities listed on the website really can inspire people to make a difference, not only at a community level but also on a national and global basis as well.

Cool, eh? I just bookmarked it and will visit it often.

> Visit Help from Home and start doing some good!

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Inspirational & Motivational Quotes

Similar to Sublime Goodness, where I collect...um, sublime goodness, I came across another collection of inspiration and motivation - www.worldofinspiration.com. This site just lists uplifting quotes and continually adds them. I can dig that.

Here are some of my favorites at the site:

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead (this is a classic!)

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”

Vernon Howard

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

Henry Drummond

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”

John Lennon

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”

Abraham Lincoln

> Read More Quotations at World of Goodness

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One Man Helps the Disabled See the World

Traveling is one my favorite things to do. Whether it's the new sights and sounds, enjoying new restaurants and shops, meeting new people or just savoring the "newness" in and of itself, traveling feels fantastic for your mind and body. But obviously, not everyone can travel - and it is particularly difficult and intimidating if you are disabled.

Craig Grimes, who broke his back 12 years ago, has just made it easier by launching the first online booking travel site this week for disabled travelers - Accessible.travel.

His story is very inspiring - I love his outlook:

Mr. Grimes, who today is launching the world's first instant online booking engine for disabled travelers, has dedicated the past five years of his life to helping people with disabilities become more adventurous. From helping a quadriplegic woman from England attend her son's wedding in Barcelona, to showing Nicaraguan war victims how to navigate the streets of Matagalpa in a wheelchair, the British advocate has been helping disabled people around the world – through his various smaller travel Web pages and in person – to push their limits and challenge their comfort zones.

Immediately after being discharged from a British hospital after falling out of a tree and breaking his back 12 years ago, Grimes boarded a plane with a friend and spent two weeks traveling around Holland – his first test of life in a wheelchair.

"After an accident, you can either sink into depression, or get on with your life," Grimes says, adding that he was "more depressed before the accident." He's since traveled to 13 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

"I truly believe that travel is rehabilitation. I am living proof of it," he says.

Now, Grimes wants to help other people with disabilities experience the same.

> Read More at Christian Science Monitor


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