Do Good, Feel Good

July 13, 2022July 12, 2022 Jennifred Jones

There’s nothing like it!

We all get down in the dumps at times. The best way to get out is to do something good…for somebody else!

‘I don’t feel like it, I’ll just stay here in my own little mess and feel bad about things.’

…and so nothing changes, we don’t change, the world doesn’t change, and we don’t feel any better…the downward spiral has begun.

BUT!!!

Take a stand, stand up! Stand up to those feelings of insignificance, lift your head up and look for somebody to be good or do good to. Smile at a stranger, say ‘Hi’ to the person on the sidewalk. Send a card to anybody! Pick up trash and tidy up your area. Give the janitor a gift card. Give the nurse a flower bouquet. Spruce up your mailbox for the mailman.

YOU WILL FEEL BETTER!!!

Anytime we do a good thing for another, we will feel better. That’s just the way we’re made.

Believe it! Now go do some good for somebody!

Be Like a Magnet

June 20, 2021 Jennifred Jones

Draw out the good in others.

A magnet can merely pass by something with iron in it and the iron particles will be drawn towards it.

Remember the kids whisker-face man toy? Iron filings underneath the clear plastic turned into whiskers and beards when you drew the magnetic pencil across his face. It all depended on where you held the magnet.

Many people have good inside them waiting to come out but there are other things… cares of life, sickness, job and family issues covering up and they’re down a lot.

Be a magnet for good, and when you encounter them use a happy voice, a cheery smile, a positive comment, and see if you can help pull their good up to the surface in their life so they can take a fresh look on things….even if only for a moment. It will be like a seed and perhaps begin to grow as other people go by with their magnets for good.

Some will be repelled by your good, or the particles of good may not come to the surface by your magnet, but don’t give up. There is a lot of good in the world and we need to bring it out.

Where am I going to draw my magnet today?

Could I turn whiskers into a smile?

Neighborhoods

October 18, 2020 Jennifred Jones

We all live in some sort of a neighborhood…

The street we live on is our neighborhood.

The apartment floor we live on is our neighborhood.

The county road we live on is our neighborhood.

We have people around us wherever we are, we see them, they see us.

We’re not trying to ‘keep up with the Joneses’, that’s a whole stress factor we don’t want to get trapped in.

We…I…desire to make my part of the neighborhood attractive and well kept for me. Everyone’s morale is lifted when they drive by and see somebody’s place well kept.

We can do a ‘shabby chic’ on our yard if need be…might be overflowing with crabgrass and peeling paint on the fence, but if we keep things trimmed up, add some flowers and keep them up, sweep and edge the walk, put a fun brightly colored table or chair on the porch, it will look happy, people will notice and smile, and it didn’t take much effort or money to do it.

Daily, it seems we have to pick up trash that somehow ‘landed in our space’, but that’s part of keeping our place up. Go ahead, take your trash bag and walk up and down your street or alley and clean it up. Next time you go out and it looks fresh and tidy, you can feel good, and rightly so, that you did it. You belong to the neighborhood improvement committee and whether anyone says anything or not….they noticed!

I think today, this Sunday, is a good day for me to see what I can do for my neighborhood.

Let’s get going!