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Help The Homeless
Image via Wikipedia - Donate your professional clothes to an organization that helps people get back into the workforce.
- Give gently worn home furnishings or household appliances to a person or family who might need them or donate them to an organization.
- Take warm clothes, blankets or food to a homeless person that you often cross paths with.
- Donate toys and books to a homeless organization. Toys and books are just as important to kids as food and shelter.
- When shopping, buy a couple extra non-perishable food items and take them to a food drive or pantry.
Your Happiness Project: Read Something For Fun
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I’m working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone’s project will look different, but it’s the rare person who can’t benefit. Join in — no need to catch up, just jump in right now. Each Friday’s post will help you think about your own happiness project.
This week — read something for fun!
I’ve noticed something when I ask people what they’re reading: they often name some highly estimable, dense, serious book, and then confess that they’ve been reading it for months.
Life Changes With Latte
Michael Gates Gill, who once made about $160,000 a year as an advertising executive and who now earns around $10.50 an hour making coffee at Starbucks, has written a book called “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else,” and it is so admiring of the firm, one fears he has drunk of the Grande Iced Kool-Aid.
“What you are doing is trying to help other people enjoy something,” he says. “It’s not doing Iraq policy, it’s not even doing a serious multimillion dollar ad campaign. It’s just trying to serve a good cup of coffee.”