{"id":87,"date":"2009-01-17T14:05:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/01\/feel-good-help-others-pl.html"},"modified":"2009-01-17T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T14:05:26","slug":"feel-good-help-others-pl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/01\/feel-good-help-others-pl.html","title":{"rendered":"Feel Good &#8212; Help Others &#8212; PLEDGE NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This country was founded on the principle that we are &#8220;One Nation, Under God, Indivisible.&#8221;&nbsp; To me that means we work together and celebrate each other, our individuality, independence, and interdependence.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a really cool, new initiative a lot of us are celebrating and joining this Martin Luther King Day weekend.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the &#8220;Declaration of Service&#8221; project (www.bethechangeaction.org), a place to commit to working to help others by volunteering at non-profit organizations: service groups, hospitals, schools, faith-based institutions, community centers, arts organizations, programs that help elderly or young folks &#8212; or organizations you set up.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve declared my goal of at least 50 hours of community service this year.&nbsp; Why don&#8217;t you join me &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethechangeaction.org\/pledge\/sign\">click here to go to their website &#8212; http:\/\/www.bethechangeaction.org\/pledge\/sign and fill-in the form and help someone in need.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll feel great.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll lose weight (!) by getting your mind off your problems and reaching outside yourself to assist those who may be less fortunate than you.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/01\/lose-weight---help-a-person-in.html#more\">I wrote more about helping others the other day, take a look here.<\/a> You might volunteer at a homeless kitchen and feed those who are hungry instead of overeating tonight.<\/p>\n<p>You could consider taking some of the excess food in your pantry and taking it right now to a food bank for the poor.&nbsp; You can find these at local churches or community centers.&nbsp; You may then celebrate your victory from overeating and at the same time help those who are under-eating.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d love to hear of your ways and goals of volunteering, please post!<\/p>\n<p>I am volunteering to do personal coaching with overweight people who cannot afford my standard fees.&nbsp; I also serve on the boards of some non-profit organizations: a community arts and recreation center in the midwest, and an international arts shelter for marginalized artists from other countries (www.freedimensional.org).<\/p>\n<p>Together, we CAN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This country was founded on the principle that we are &#8220;One Nation, Under God, Indivisible.&#8221;&nbsp; To me that means we work together and celebrate each other, our individuality, independence, and interdependence. 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