Massive Giving Weekly Quote - Give Back

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more”


 Anthony Robbins

Massive Giving Weekly Quote - Peace

"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
 Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

Ever Felt ....Lonely?...... Discouraged? ...Unappreciated? ......Forgotten?

Note:  This is a slightly updated repost of the original blog post on December 8, 2008.  I am re-energizing this effort.  The new goal is to send 50,000 cards.

while putting your life on the line for your country....

Picture a US Marine, sitting in a Humvee in Iraq, looking out into the darkness through Night Vision Goggles and thinking:

..... do the people back home even care that I’m here? I wish they would remember me and let me know that they care. Knowing that would really help me on some of these lonely nights. I remember when we got some cards from first graders a few months back. They drew pictures for me... for me. That was neat. But here, at Christmas, does anyone even remember that I’m here?

I don't know how a solder feels about getting mail – I’ve never been one. So I asked a friend and here is how he put it to me:

I know what it feels like to get mail in the service. I was in the
US Marines and when I was somewhere spread all across the
world, the mail was almost like having your first child. It was
really exciting to hear from home and just to know that
someone actually did care... You should have seen some of the
faces at mail call when they were calling out the names and
handing the mail out. But then those few including myself
sometimes.... that big smile of anticipation would turn into
a frown when I didn’t hear my name called. It felt like your
girlfriend just broke up with you and your heart tightened
up somehow...

Ralph, when I was in Bosnia, I remember getting postcards from
some 1st grade class, with drawings on them from the kids. I
felt special. I know you don’t understand that, but I am
actually getting teary eyed just remembering how it felt. When
I was over there, to have someone actually care felt really
good. I honestly, for the longest time, didn’t think that
America really cared at all about us during the gulf way back
in ’91. I always thought they were more interested in the next
episode of Alf rather than me trying to get safely back home
from this crazy war my president put me in.
(That’s from my friend, Vic Hutchinson.)
Realizing how that soldier feels is the reason I started my Massive Giving Group.

Here we sit in our comfortable homes with our little problems .... and some of us do have big problems.
In spite of your problems, by taking 2 minutes, you can bring some cheer and encouragement to 5 special Americans who are giving their all to serve their country.

How? By sending 5 post cards. Think of what it will do for them ... and for you.

Do something COOL. Right now. Today!

Help send 50,000 Post Cards to our Troops.

You'll feel great, knowing you've brightened their day.

1. Go to this web site: Send a Card

2. Pick out a Thank you card and send it. Send more, if you have the time.

Xerox prints the cards and sends them to a soldier

who is serving in Iraq. You don't get to choose

who gets them. But they do get delivered

to members of the armed services.

3. Then tell me how many you sent by clicking here ==> I sent some

1. 
   
   Enter the number you sent and your comments in the "Leave your Comment" box.
2. 
   
   Scroll down and click the button to the left of the words "Name/URL".
3. 
   
   Enter a name. If you want to remain anonymous (which often increases the fun of giving), make up a name so I can tell you apart from other givers.
4. 
   
   If you desire, enter the URL for your blog or web page.
5. 
   
   Click on the "Publish Your Comment" below where you entered your name.

4. Get the word out about this 50,000 card project. Send this link to all your friends, post it on your blog, or put it on your web page:

http://imquickstarttips.blogspot.com/2010/02/ever-felt-lonely-discouraged.html

or this shorter version:

http://bit.ly/97CNcq

5. Return here weekly and send a few more. How about 25 per week? Can you do it?

Once a week in the upper right corner on this blog,

I update the total number that we've sent.

Here's what one soldier has to say about receiving these post cards:

Thank you so much for the post card. It is so nice to receive things in the mail here. Some would not believe it but the simple good feeling of going to the company mail room and the clerk saying "Yes, you have mail" is an uplifting experience. Even if it’s just a letter saying "hi" makes our day! Thanks again for your thoughts and prayers.
- An Army Sergeant

Wouldn't it brighten the spirits of lots of soldiers if
you and I get everyone we know to send several!!!

It is FREE and it only takes a few minutes.

Think of those soldiers receiving a bunch of these?

It doesn't matter whether or not you support the war,

our soldiers deserve to know we support them.

This takes less than 5 minutes and it's a marvelous way to say thank you. Please send some cards. Then take the time to pass a link on to others so they can do it also. We can never say "Thank You" enough to the men and women in our armed services.

Thank YOU for taking to time to support our military!

Now that you've sent some. How about sending some more.

Send as many as you have time to.

Send a Card

Enjoy your freedoms.  I hope you have a wonderful life.

Ralph Lyon

P.S. Please remember to enter how many you sent. (See step 3 above.)

Massive Giving Weekly Quote - How Many

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”

 Mother Teresa

Massive Giving Weekly Quote - Cheerful

God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 9:7

Massive Giving Weekly Quote - Purchasing Friends

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fuller

Massive Giving Weekly Quote - What we Know

Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person.

Pam Davis

Earthquake-struck Haiti is Recipient of Massive Giving

Today the following was reported on NPR (National Public Radio):

John Dallas, a San Francisco realtor, was watching the news about the earthquake in Haiti last night with his wife when his cell phone had a text message that said ... give $10 to Haiti relief, text this number. He thought, that's awfully convenient.

So convenient that he did it right away.

This is the first time that there has been massive giving via text message in the United States. mGive is the company that's been working with charitable organizations to set up this kind of giving.

And it's been very successful. Over $7 million has already been donated.

But there is a delay in getting the money this way. Consumer/Giver ease = delay as them money has to be collected at the next billing cycle and then forwarded on to mGive who then forwards it on to the charitable organization.

How to get the money to the charity faster: The Better Business Bureau recommends that consumers give to charity online, by phone or mail if they want the funds deposited immediately.

However you give, it'll take some Massive Giving to take care of the needs in Haiti.

Give 'til YOU Smile!

Massive Giving Weekly Quote: Generous

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

Massive Giving Weekly Quote: 2010

In this New Year 2010, may God give You….

12 Months of Giving,

52 Weeks of Fun,

365 Days of Success,

8,760 Hours of Good Health,

52,600 Minutes of Happines,

3,153,600 Seconds of Joy

….and everything good that you desire!

That is my wish for you.

Ralph Lyon

Massive Giving Weekly Quote - Compliments

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

On this Christmas Eve, I just wanted to take a moment and
leave you with a little story:

The story has been around a while, in fact, I'm not even
sure where it comes from originally or how I came across it.

I like this story because it reminds me that we get one
shot, so we better be giving our best every single time.

Anyway, this story is called "The Carpenter's Mistake" and
it goes like this...

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his
employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house
building business and live a more leisurely life with his
wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the
paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.

The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked
if he could build just one more house as a personal favor.

The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that
his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy
workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an
unfortunate way to end his career.

When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to
inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key
to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "My gift to you."

What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was
building his own house, he would have done it all so
differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built
none too well.

And so it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted
way, re-acting rather than acting, willing to put up less
than the best. At important points we do not give the job
our best efforts.

Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created
and find that we are now living in the house we have built.

If we had realized, we would have done it differently.
Think of yourself as the carpenter. And your life is your house.

Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a
wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will everbuild.
Even if you live it for only one day more, that day
deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity.

The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project."

This is the so true, isn't it?

Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices
in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the result of your
attitudes and the choices you make today.

So choose wisely.

Massive Giving Weekly Quote - Appropriateness

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

Massive Giving Weekly Quote - Gifts

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian