I believe there are four facets to the Being Goode Challenge –

• Traditional Volunteerism
  • What it sounds like, helping in soup kitchens, tutoring, etc.

• Charitable Giving
  • Giving or raising money to donate to a charity.

• Personal Kindnesses
  • Little or big gestures to put smiles on the faces of others.

• Self Care
  • Kindnesses directed at myself. More important than people realize.

I want to share with you here the progress I’m making in those categories each week. More than likely the charitable giving category is going to be on the lighter side and the others will have off weeks but it’s good to check in and see how I’m doing.

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This week I’ve had a head cold, which has been more annoying than anything else. I have a standing shift with Crisis Text Line where I’m a counselor on Wednesday nights and as you saw me tweet I almost called in sick to my shift and happened to see the article about Jimmy Carter who is in his nineties and has cancer still being a hard core humanitarian and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.

• Traditional Volunteerism
  • 4 hour Crisis Text Line Shift
  • I track my volunteer hours through my company in order to earn a bonus charitable donation at the end of the year. This week I hit the top level at over 150 hours this calendar year. That’s about a half hour of volunteer a day. It feels great to hit this milestone.

• Charitable Giving
  • I gave $4.06 or two meals to the Los Angeles Mission. I heard an add on the radio and I had just spent $4 on Lottery tickets (more thoughts on my lottery habit at a later date). If I had $4 to spend in one place I figured I could afford $4 in another. You can give a meal or two here – https://donate.losangelesmission.org/losangelesmission/main.php/micro_sites/showpage?id=11&page_number=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=los%20angeles%20mission&utm_campaign=paid

• Personal Kindnesses
  • One of my co-workers went on a job interview and as I struggle to get ahead in my career I made sure to support her. I checked in with her before and after her interview and made sure to keep her in my thoughts.

• Self Care
  • This week mostly consisted of spending all my free time sleeping and drinking orange juice.
  • But I also started this blog, which is bringing me a great amount of joy after only a week.

Please share in the comments how you’re doing this week!