Are you doing what you do for yourself or are you looking at how what you do/offer can make a difference in your community and for the world at large?
For many people, the simplest thought is “I do what I do for me” and they don’t worry about others.
Yet, for some — like me — it is all about how can we make the world a better place. Finding new ways to give back to your community – be it through volunteering your time, donating much-needed funds or resources to organizations that support certain causes near and dear to your heart or otherwise getting involved with something bigger than you can actually lead to a much happier life!
Listen in as we go into the idea of giving back and how it really may be just what the doctor ordered!
Life & business intersect in many places. After all, we cannot have a business without looking at the human component of business.
This podcast with Jennifer R Glass, CEO of Business Growth Strategies International & BGSICoaching.com is all about the meaning of life and business & the interesting ways they intersect. The show is for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs on the search for what makes people successful and how to get there themselves.
Listen in as Jennifer & her guests dive deep into what makes people tick & how they make their businesses work for the betterment of others.
Are you doing what you do for yourself or are you looking at how what you do/offer can make a difference in your community and for the world at large?
For many people, the simplest thought is “I do what I do for me” and they don’t worry about others.
Yet, for some — like me — it is all about how can we make the world a better place. Finding new ways to give back to your community – be it through volunteering your time, donating much-needed funds or resources to organizations that support certain causes near and dear to your heart or otherwise getting involved with something bigger than you can actually lead to a much happier life!
Listen in as we go into the idea of giving back and how it really may be just what the doctor ordered!
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On Today’s episode, we’re going to be talking about community. What does community mean to you? For a lot of people,
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community is something as simple as the people around me it’s my neighborhood.
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It’s my brothers, it’s my whatever it may be there’s a lot of different things that community can possibly mean.
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But it also means, though, what are you doing to make your community a better place. One of the things that I’ve often spoken about is giving back to the community.
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I have been accused of being Utopian, because I leave it as I help my clients grow in their business, and they end up hiring people.
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They end up bringing more people in and having more money going into the community and having money.
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Then going to the various causes or organizations that rely on small businesses on Main Street, U.S.A.
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To fund their tricky trays in their general donation needs.
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All of these different things start coming from there and sp people continue to give more in terms of what they’re doing.
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They end up getting more operations in terms of helping that community and our nations grow, which makes everybody better off.
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That’s why i’ve been accused of being Utopian. I don’t see that being a problem I see that being a good thing we were put on this planet to really move difference.
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We were put on this planet to leave it in a better position than we found it.
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The problem is when we stop paying attention to the values of what it is that we’re trying to do very often when we are dealing with various things in a community, we tend. to Think how is it going to relate to me me me
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not to ask us us. And so one of the things that we need to be doing is we need to really be focus more on the Us.
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The global Us that’s going to make a difference this is the time in this recording there’s a war brewing in Europe that we haven’t seen the likes of since the twentieth century.
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There’s conflict in many other regions. of the planet There’s a shortage of baby formula there’s a shortage of operators in many areas, but there’s so much out there that we can also be doing the question
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is. if we’re looking at community and we say community is what makes us stronger, we say community is what brings us together.
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We say that community is the thing that really holds everybody together and allows us to be the best that we can be.
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We really need to be seeing what more we can be doing.
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How much are you going out and volunteering? Do you get involved in organizations in your town?
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Do you know the organizations in your town that need the help whether it’s a food pantry it’s the Pba.
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It’s the crime Stoppers organization if you have a business the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Lions Club.
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The you name the organization there’s so many organizations that are out there that need the help that need people to be doing more, so that we can be making the world a better place.
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The more that we know. ultimately where we go and What We’re trying to do the better off. We’re going to be my chain to you is, what are you going to do today.
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Tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. that is going to be making the difference.
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If you can really focus in on one or 2 things that’s, all you really have to look at that you can be doing to start making a difference in your community, your community is going to be in a better place, because of you getting involved when we all take
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an interest in our community. We know that everybody is going to benefit one of the other things that volunteering does.
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Is it really reduces the likelihood, you being depressed, anxious, feeling negative any kind of negative emotional state, simply because gratitude and volunteering is a positive state.
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The brain cannot work with only one or when it’s in one site. And then, yeah, conversely, if you’re in a negative state, it’s very hard to get back to the positive go out, though find one thing you can do 2
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things you can do to start making a difference if it means calling up your local Chamber of Commerce and saying, I want to get more involved.
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If it means calling up the food pantry and saying, Do you need an hour where I can come by?
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Maybe bring your kids, show them the value of giving back to the community.
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When you can do that, You’re going to be teaching another generation, all about the importance of giving back in the community.
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And you’re going to be teaching them the next step to being part of society.
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I’ve been doing that with my kids since they were little my kids come.
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They volunteer at a bunch of different Chamber of Commerce.
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Events, a lot of other community programs where they see the importance of giving them.
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I learned that from my own parents, the more they you can do to really start making that connection with the people in your circle, the more the organizations that you support and the causes the community needs are going to be.
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Better off. It all starts with you. It starts with you, making that call.
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That setting that email making that outreach and saying, How can I get more involved?
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If you are ready. Thank you. Congratulations. That is amazing.
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And on behalf of those organizations. I want to thank you.
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But what you want to try and do is see if you can share the idea of giving back with even more people.
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Is there one organization that you’re really really passionate about is there an organization that is a nonprofit organization that is reliant on donations that you can think or ideally wish. Maybe out of business.
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No I know what you’re gonna say wait a second did she just say, go out of business.
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I did cause a lot of organizations are around because of something that they’re trying to do to stop as an example.
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Take Saint Jude? if St. Jude goes out of business. It means that childhood cancer has been defeated wouldn’t that be a great thing? If No Kid Hungry went out of business, because every kid has had enough food wouldn’t that be a
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great thing? All of these types of organizations rely on us to help get the word out, to help support them, to help.
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Really end the crisis that they’re trying to and Oh, it all starts with us when you know exactly where you want to go where you want to take things.
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It’s going to be a much better position for everybody on this planet.
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So it’s really my wish as we wrap up our podcast session today.
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What are you going to do? Remember, we said before that one or 2 organizations that you can reach out to what can you do?
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How are you going to make the difference and start making the world a better place! On that note. this has been another episode of “MOJO: The Meaning of Life & Business” and until next time, here’s to your success.
