Inspiration Friday 2025.08.22

Inspiration: Happy Friday!
Today is the 234th Day of 2025.

We have $234,000.00 today.
10% savings = $23,400.00
40% taxes = $93,600.00: This week I am expressing gratitude for these tax dollars being spent to support Petrified Forest National Park located in the state of Arizona. The Petrified Forest started as a National Monument in 1906 and officially became a National Park in 1962. You will find among other wonders the Chinle Formation, Badlands and fossils to explore. Learn more here: LEARN MORE HERE!

How will you spend the remaining $117,000.00 today?

HERE IS MY PLAN: Generate Kindness

“Sometimes you can’t pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.” –Randy Pausch

How are you showing up in the world?

My dad has been gone for a year this month. He role modeled the importance of volunteering in your communities. Even in the assisted living facility the staff nicknamed him “The Mayor” because he was helping to engage with and serve the other seniors in his community. I thought of my dad when I heard a story about High School English teacher Kristina Ulmer from Pennsylvania. She has been giving her students $20.00 each year since 2018. Mrs. Ulmer gives them the money with instructions to use these dollars to do something kind for someone else in the community. The project was started in memory of her sister Katie who died in a car accident. Mrs. Ulmer wanted Katie’s kindness to live on by teaching her students the importance of showing up for community members. Imagine a generation of young people practicing kindness, writing about their experiences, and teaching fellow students’ ways to care for community members together. Everyone can do something to make a difference in another person’s life today. We can all generate more kindness. We can all volunteer. How are you showing up in the world?

$100.00: Self-care. When children go back to school, I find myself buying more books to learn new things. After I read these books, I will pass them forward to others.  And I love that!

$0: Priceless: Paying it forward.

“The point is not to pay back kindness, but to pass it on.” –Julie Alvarez

When was the last time you were kind to a stranger?

Who have you helped this week?

Do you have a journal of kindness?

Where are you volunteering to help others?

Every kind action amplifies hope.

We need your kindness now.

Do something kind today.

Volunteer.

$115,900.00 I am supporting Kristen Ulmer’s living legacy project to give each High School Freshman $20.00 to do something kind for a community member. I am supporting teaching generations to look for opportunities to help another person. The health of humanity depends on us increasing kind actions in our communities. We are the solution to better for all. How kind can you stand it? Learn more here:  LEARN MORE HERE!

$1000.00: This week’s date includes a long moonlit walk with the dogs. There is a blanket of peace and calm to be found in the warmth of August’s summer nights.  Sometimes we chat and sometimes we just lean into the night sounds and listen to the stories of nature. Walking creates a sacred space of being together.

How much love can you stand?

Flow Five Friday: Current “real” life expressions of gratitude, love, and contribution to wellbeing.

$5.00: this week’s five-dollar bill is inside the library book titled: Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde. The themes include kindness, empathy, and a call to action. I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.

Five increments of time: I am reading with school children and facilitating adults in week three of a Dream Nudge Challenge. Helping people to move one of their life dreams closer to being fully realized. Being there; how does it get better than that? How are you “Flowing Five” this week?

Well-Being: Something that I am doing or not doing for self-care in real time.

I am increasing the number of random acts of kindness that I consciously engage in weekly. Being kind to others generates joy in my heart.  What are you doing or not doing for self-care?

Planet Awareness: Contributing to the health of Earth.

“Be kind to Earth whenever possible. It is always possible.”-Dalai Lama

Do you practice “trip chaining?” According to TravelWise, trip chaining comprises mapping out your errands and other activities by grouping them into one trip instead of returning home in between each one. The more errands you group together, the more vehicle trips you save. What are you doing for the health of our planet?

Hold Space or Contribute to a Friends Life Intention

This week I am supporting Zella, who is someone I met in a women’s professional networking organization. One of her living intentions is to be someone who people love to work with on projects. Zella is seriously struggling with all the changes in the world and finding it hard to concentrate on bringing her brilliance to contribute to building her business.  One way that you can help support Zella’s living intention is to imagine her finding peace of mind and being the version of herself that people love inviting to join them on work projects. Imagine that everyone who matters to you has access to mental health professionals with ease. Join me in being kinder to others today.

Choose joy. Be kind. Love others and strive to be a better human. What would it take?

Choose to feel good. Be Joy. 
Practice gratitude. Amplify Kindness. Expand Generosity. 
Ask, Receive, and Give with More Ease. 
Respond to life with Love.

PS: If you have been playing with me for several years, below are the current daily deposits in other years Vibrational Accounts: