#40 Go Old School on Messages

Even when the whole world's moving toward email and text messaging, people still love receiving hand-written letters or cards.  It's personal.  It means the sender took extra time and attention and dedicate a few seconds or minutes of their lives for you because you have an importance in their lives.  Back in the olden days, this is how people communicate, believe it or not.  Sometimes it took weeks before a letter would arrive but the anticipation and excitement of finding a personal letter or card in the mailbox or handed by a mail carrier was fun and priceless.

Buy a set of thank you cards.  When someone helped you in simple ways, write and send one.  When you are thinking of someone you haven't spoken to in a while, write and send one.  When you want to show someone your love or appreciation, write and send one.  When Christmas is around the corner, write a bunch and send them with love and prayers. 

Remember, you are a channel of blessings. You can't receive more blessings if you don't share what you already have.

#35 Write It Down

If you don't write it, it's not happening.  When you are brainstorming about something or when you suddenly have an idea or a solution to something, write it down immediately.  Otherwise you'll forget it a few hours or days later.

A few hours or days or weeks later, when you do get back to read some of these seemingly random notes, you will find it much easier to tackle or come up with an even better solution.

Pencil and paper, keyboard and monitor, whatever the tools.  Just write it down.  Write down your goals for next week, next month, and next year.  And while writing them down, don't criticize the thoughts that pop into your head.  Just let it flow.  Let the creativity and dreams flow.