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Whether you've been unemployed, one week, one month, one year or even
longer, it's time to rise from the sunken couch you've resigned
yourself to and engage the world around you, beginning with your
neighbors just beyond the front door. You have talents worth exercising,
gifts worth giving and priceless wisdom worth sharing, to the deserving
masses, within your midst.
Without an immediate resurgence of small business growth in a country
based on it's entrepreneurial spirit, long term unemployment will
continue to drag down consumer confidence, and in turn small business;
along with the jobs we so desperately need to employ us. There are small
steps all of us can do, currently employed or not, to begin this
resurgence, one kindness at a time.
When I started my
first business, I had no clue what all it entailed. But what I did have,
was an endless supply of encouragement, assuring me that I could do it.
You know what, I did it, some thirty plus years ago and many more times
since then. Starting to write my first novel last year was an equally
daunting task, where I struggled immeasurably, because it was far
outside my comfort zone. Imagine me writing a steamy, romantic,
adventure thriller, sprinkled with truth and threaded with the theme,
paying it forward no matter what, whew! Yet, there were people who
believed in me, thereby empowering me to continue.
Guess what, Ride to Redemption published last month.
More amazing, we've designated one dollar from every purchase to benefit
Second Harvest Food Bank. Those folks know how to stretch a dollar like
you wouldn't believe. They'll wrangle almost four meals out of it. I'm
proud to tell you, novel two is well underway, why? Because of
encouraging and glowing reviews from my peers. I've come to see, first
hand, that anything is possible if there are people in our midst who
share of themselves, their time and their talents. You too, can be that
encourager to another struggling individual who needs a little help to
believe, to keep on keeping on. Brain power, coupled with man power can
do most anything. You just have to believe and be present.
Confidence breeds confidence, encouragement breeds encouragement, faith
breeds faith. That's where you and I come in, by giving ourselves away.
We have unique talents and gifts, specific only to us that can be used
to make an immediate difference in the lives of others. My businesses
have long since gone, swallowed up by a life altering recession and an
economic collapse, most of us didn't see coming. Yet my talents remain,
along with my heart. I'm doing my best to put them to better use, this
time around.
While you're waiting for your next employment
opportunity, continue to hone your valuable, marketable skills, by
volunteering to serve, to encourage, to inspire. Look around you. We're
hurting here. There's relatively few places one can go today without
seeing need based service's struggling to meet their ever increasing
demands. There are very few, if any community based organizations today
that will turn down volunteers, in any shape or form.
Seniors
need some type of assistance and or interaction everyday, be it changing
a light bulb, reprogramming a remote, trimming some shrubs or just
someone to talk to. Young people need mentoring, as well as tutoring, in
Boy's Clubs and Girl's Clubs and Y's. Peer's need encouragement,
inspiration and hope, if they too are in the throes of financial or
emotional distress. Empathy goes a long way when others know you have
walked in their shoes.
I can't promise that by venturing off the
sunken couch and into the community, sharing your skills and passions
with your neighbors, (We're all neighbors here) will get you employed
any faster. But what it will do is keep your skill set sharp, your mind
engaged and your heart in tune to the world, just beyond your door. I
learned long ago, to give whatever you need the most of. So far in my
life, I can tell you from my own personal experiences, it works. Many
times it comes in unexpected ways, you will never fathom or imagine.
Here's a really kind review of our first novel, along with a
link if, after reading it, you'd like to buy it through Amazon. Either
way, Thank you. If you've got an extra dollar or two, send it to a
Second Harvest Food Bank near you.
Purchase Ride to Redemption Here.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H7K6J06
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