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The Kindness Box

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FineLinen

Well-Known Member
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Kindness gets a mention in this page about well-being down here in Oz -

Be kind to yourself and others

The way we think about ourselves and the way we speak about ourselves are arguably the number one driving force for how we feel in our own skin every day. Next time you catch yourself criticising the way you look, giving yourself a hard time for not exercising enough or not getting the promotion at work — whatever it is — stop and ask yourself if you would ever speak to your best friend like that? If the answer is no then there’s your answer. If you’re not cutting yourself a bit of slack by showing kindness and compassion, then how can anyone else?

10 ways to practise self-care -

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Leads us to ...

In a brilliant piece on effective charity, one of my favorite bloggers, Scott Alexander, provided the following anecdote, which I think elucidates the core of the Effective Altruism approach:

“Most donors say they want to ‘help people’. If that’s true, they should try to distribute their resources to help people as much as possible. Most people don’t. In the ‘Buy A Brushstroke’ campaign, eleven thousand British donors gave a total of £550,000 to keep the famous painting ‘Blue Rigi’ in a UK museum. If they had given that £550,000 to buy better sanitation systems in African villages instead, the latest statistics suggest it would have saved the lives of about one thousand two hundred people from disease. Each individual $50 donation could have given a year of normal life back to a Third Worlder afflicted with a disabling condition like blindness or limb deformity.

Altruism 2.0: How to Do 1,000 Times More Good by Donating Effectively

It's rather a long article but some informative stuff and websites ...

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Practice self-kindness ...

We often talk about ‘being kind to ourselves’; but when depression has us in its grasp, it can feel hard to like ourselves enough to carry out basic self-care, never mind to show ourselves kindness. It’s even harder to practice self-kindness when we can’t think where we could start or when it feels like an alien habit, so here are a few ideas to get us going.

11 Ways We Can Practice Self-Kindness

Wishing you all the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Giving money to charity is a great thing to do, but to make sure your money is being used wisely, it’s important to investigate the charity to which you’re considering donating. The last thing you want to do is give your money to a sketchy “charity” that uses the majority of the donations it receives to pay its staff. You need to be sure that your money is actually going to help the people you want it to help.

9 Charities Worth Donating To

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Most of us want to make a difference. We see suffering, injustice and death, and are moved to do something about them. But working out what that ‘something’ is, let alone actually doing it, can be a difficult and disheartening challenge.

Effective altruism is a response to this challenge. It is a research field which uses high-quality evidence and careful reasoning to work out how to help others as much as possible. It is also a community of people taking these answers seriously, by focusing their efforts on the most promising solutions to the world's most pressing problems.

Introduction to Effective Altruism

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Humble & kind -

There are shelves full of self-help books with insights that “guarantee” our success in business, health or self-discovery. But one of the most profound, yet simple guides for life was captured in a song by the remarkable writer, Lori McKenna.

As you watch this PSA, we hope you sense that by being kind our most important life goals will be achieved. “I know you got mountains to climb, but always stay humble and kind ...”

Always stay Humble and Kind

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