4 steps to improving your world
1. Love a place/ Love where you are.
Maybe it’s Oregon, California, Washington, Portland, the beach, the coast or, your own backyard. The more you love a place, the more we tend to care for it. Love = caring for.
2. Do what you can.
Just like it says, Do what you can not what you cannot.” If you can’t, you won’t; if you can and are not; remember, you love this place.
3. Talk, Ask and Listen to people A.K.A build community
Tell people what you love about your place; ask about the place they love, listen to ideas. Getting this out of you and to others helps you and others improve, preserve, and protect the places you love. Communication is the most powerful tool available to you.
4. Do a little more / Do something a little scary.
Try something new everyday. It might be scary, it might not but go ahead and try. It’s called growth and we should always try. Even the smallest action is growth. Even if you are unsure of the outcome, do as much or as little as you can. .001% improvement is still improvement and it all adds up.
Summary: Love a place, Do what you can, Communicate, Grow.
Bucci’s Practice of the above.
1. I Love Oregon, it is my home; my heart is here and I will protect what holds my heart. I love its Ocean, its trees, its high desert, its people and I really love the fact that my son is native to my home.
2. I pick up batteries when I find them on the street. So simple, such a large impact. Please help and pick one up if it is safe for you to do so. Also, encourage others not to drop a battery or cigarette butt. (I could use help in encouraging folks not to flick their butts.)
3. This post is a form of Communication.
4. I need help in remember to put the reusable grocery bags in my car and pull them out when I’m at the store. Does anyone have a good way of remembering?
Finally, send me any suggestions or comments you have on this post or ideas this post might have given you.
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January 7, 2010 at 12:54 pm |
Hi Chris! I have a terrible memory and I too forget my reusable grocery bags way too often. I don’t mean to get off topic here, but I have family in Portland, Oregon (left my heart there!) and I was lucky to visit there twice within the past year. I can’t wait to go back. I got to visit the Tillamook cheese factory and I got a big blue reuseable tote bag there. I also picked up various Oregon reusable totes along the way on my trips and before I knew it, I had a ton of bags! I thought good, but I can’t keep forgetting them. Since my Tillamook reusable tote is pretty large, I folded almost all of my reusable bags and put them inside the Tillamook reusable one. I put that bag in my trunk and it stays there, so I’m never without my bags. I just hate to get plastic bags now. Hope this helps and if you try it out, let me know how it works! I love Oregon and I even have a Heart In Oregon tattoo
January 11, 2010 at 3:10 pm |
Hi Katherine:
I just cleaned my car and have all 4 of my bags in the front seat. I will see if this improves my memory with my bags. Thank you for the comment. – Chris
January 13, 2010 at 8:35 am |
Hi Chris, you’re welcome!