This post is about the 14-Day Kindness Challenge held in Nov 2012, where we do different acts of kindness for 14 days. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.
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I know some of you participants have your own blogs. Some of you have already told me that you are planning to blog about your 14-day kindness journey.
I say… THAT IS A FANTASTIC IDEA AND ALL OF US SHOULD GO FOR IT!!
Come Nov 1, I will be blogging about *MY* 14-day kindness journey via the daily task entries on PE. I will be blogging about my Day 1 progress and results in Day 2’s post, my Day 2 progress and results in Day 3’s post, and so on.
The reason why I’ll be blogging about my journey is because (a) it gives me accountability to do the tasks and live up to the 14 days of kindness which I had signed up for, and (b) it is a great way to show others how I’m applying kindness onto my life and how all of you can do the same too.
Blogging has always been an essential enabler in my growth; this is why I had always been so relentless in my sharing on PE. Besides the fact that I want to share my life with all of you and enable you to grow through my life experiences, blogging also helps me to self-reflect and become a better person.
Because of that, I’d hereby like to officially invite all of you to blog about YOUR 14-day kindness journey from Nov 1 to Nov 14.
Not only will it be a great way to inspire people around you, it will also provide a great accountability platform for you to complete the 14 days’ worth of tasks. I once made this statement: “You can never control or change how others think, feel, or act. You can only change how you think, feel, and act, and lead by example.” By openly blogging about your 14-day kindness journey, you will clearly be leading by example and giving others a chance to learn from you.
Your Task: Blog about Your 14-Day Kindness Journey
Here’s how to get going.
- Create your blog.
- For those without blogs, create a brand new blog just to blog about your 14-day kindness journey! It’s super easy to do that nowadays. WordPress, Blogger, and Xanga are all blogging platforms you can use. Any tech newbie can easily create a blog and start blogging in minutes.
- For those with blogs, skip to the next step.
- Pledge your participation.
- Write a new post on your blog announcing your participation in the 14-Day Kindness Challenge. (Ensure you have officially signed up first of course. Sign up here via the sign up form.)
- Be sure to link to the official Kindness Challenge page so your readers can read and sign up for themselves too: https://personalexcellence.co/blog/kindness-challenge/
- Share your blog details!
- Post (a) your blog title (b) your blog URL and (b) the URL of your post announcing your participation in comments section of this post!
- Then, blog about your journey in the next 14 days!
- For the next 14 days, blog about your kindness journey on your blog, at a rate of one entry per task per day.
- You should still share your daily results in the comments sections of the daily task posts as part of your daily task commitment. (Day 1’s results on Day 1’s comments section, Day 2’s results on Day 2’s comments section, etc.)
If you are a total blogging n00b and/or you do not wish to take this step, it’s fine. You don’t need to blog about your 14-day kindness journey if you don’t want to, just that it will be loads of fun and I feel it will further accentuate your journey. You can still share your results in the comments sections of the daily task posts, which is really the key place where you should post your daily results anyway.
Check Out the Blogs of The 14-Day Kindness Journey Participants!
As an incentive and encouragement to all of you blogging about YOUR 14-day kindness journey, I will be showcasing your blog URLs here!
Personal Excellence has over one million page views a month, a Google page rank of 4, and is linked by over thousands of sites from around the world. Having your site linked from PE will undoubtedly help boost the credibility of your site in the search engines’ eyes and perhaps draw new visitors to your website.
By having your blog listed here, it will also give PE readers ideas on how they can go about doing the 14-day kindness challenge and help inspire them to be better people through your writing.
Blogs will be listed on a first come first serve basis! Note that to avoid spammers, only those who have posted at least a post announcing their participation in the Kindness Challenge will have their blogs listed below.
Actively updated:
- On My Mind by Qin Tang; Kickoff post: 14-Day Kindness Challenge
- Welcome to my World by Coreh; Kickoff post: 14-Day Kindness Challenge
- A Charity a Day by Marge; Kickoff post: Kindness Challenge
- Basked in Sunshine by fufu; Kickoff post: Join me in the 14-Day Kindness Challenge!
- flowindy by ugi; Kickoff post: Writing heals my soul…
- Walk By Faith by Cheree; Kickoff post: Kindness Challenge
- The Start of Happiness by Brendan; Kickoff post: The November Kindness Challenge – 14 Days of Making a Difference
- Mindset Coaching by Dolly; Kickoff post: Kindness Challenge Nov 1-14, 2012
- The Kindness Challenge by Lulu
- twirlingleaves by Patricia; Kickoff post: Contagious Kindness
- divyaa by divyaa; Kickoff post: Let us celebrate ‘kind-ness-this-November’
- A Queen Journey by Racheal; Kickoff post: You’re invited!!
On to Day 0!
After you are done, move on to Day 0: Get at least ONE Friend / Family Member to Join the Challenge!
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Hey now that it’s on a roll, lets get to 1000!!!!!
If everyone reported on FB and got everyone they got on board I think it could be done.
This is awesome.
PAW, if we can get it up to a 1,000, that would be really awesome!! I’m rallying as many people as I can by getting this out to the media outlets and pushing everyone on my social media networks to take part. Let’s all do our part to get as many participants as possible! :D
A Queen Journey
aqueenjourney.blogspot.com
http://aqueenjourney.blogspot.com/2012/10/your-invited.html?m=1
Awesome Racheal! :D Just included your link in the post! :D
Super-excited to be part of this!
Blog Title: The Start of Happiness:
URL: http://startofhappiness.com
Post: http://www.startofhappiness.com/the-november-kindness-challenge-14-days-of-making-a-difference/
Brendan
Awesome Brendan. Just included your link in the post! :D
My blog is http://www.misteiskind.wordpress.com. :angel:
Hey Miste, that’s fantastic! :D I noticed there are no entries on your blog yet-I assume you created it specifically for the kindness challenge? :) You can get the ball rolling by posting about your participation in the challenge! Perhaps share your thoughts about the challenge and what you hope to get out of it.
My blog is On My Mind
http://onmymind.areavoices.com
http://onmymind.areavoices.com/2012/10/31/14-day-kindness-challenge/
Hi Qin Tang! :D How awesome to have you join the Kindness Challenge and blog about your process! Hope you are doing well and look forward to having a great 14 days ahead with you! :D
My blog is this
http://kindnessisnice.wordpress.com/
Hey Lulu! :) Great job! Perhaps you would want to have a link back to the kindness challenge at https://personalexcellence.co/blog/kindness-challenge/ so that your visitors can check out more about the challenge itself?
Regarding your (lack of) results for Day 0, it’s okay if some of your friends refused to join. Perfectly okay. What’s most important is that you have tried! :) And hey, who knows-perhaps some of your friends might be inspired to join after seeing you do the acts of kindness for 2-3 days straight! :)
Hi again
I created my blog, here is the name
flowindy.wordpress.com
happy sharings!
ugi
Hi ugi, that’s awesome! :) Would you want to kick off your blog with a kickoff post announcing your participation to the Kindness Challenge? This way it would help to start the ball rolling!
Hi Celes,
Yes I just did it, thank you and looking forward to day 1 challenge!
ugi
Great work ugi!! :D I’ve included your site in the kindness challenge blog roll!
Hey Celes, my blog is http://hackmyheart.com. Just posted an introductory post! I’m using this to get back into my blogging again, which I’ve unfortunately neglected for a while. >.<
Can't wait to get started with the actual challenge! I'm about to post about it to my Twitter, too! =)
That’s fantastic Alexa! :D I’ve added your blog to the blog roll. I’m glad that this challenge is serving as an impetus to start blogging again! This is going to be such fun! :D
Hi there. Thank you for setting this up. Very excited! Can’t think of anyone I could recruit to join me though for the day0 challenge!
http://charity365.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/kindness-challenge.html
Awesome Marge! :) Just listed your site in the blog roll!
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http://www.loverido.com/2012/10/kindnesschallenge.html
My niece is joining this challenge with me – and I plan to blog every day about it!
Hi Patricia, aw, thank you for your kind words, and thank you for such a warm kickoff post! :D Perhaps you would like to link to the challenge announcement post at https://personalexcellence.co/blog/kindness-challenge/ so that your readers would be able to check out the challenge and sign up if they are interested? Feel free to link to the daily challenge posts as you blog about your progress with the tasks on a daily basis.
Welcome aboard the 14-Day Kindness Challenge!! Let’s get started!
I am very happy to have blog after such a long time. This challenge helps me to breakthrough my own mental block about blogging directly into my http://www.teens.mindset-coaching.com ! I used to ask my webmaster to do so because I am a techno phobia person. Below is my journal on how I feel after the hugs I gave to my daughter, a stranger and my client!
As I journal this on my ipad, on my way to meet my client, I felt warmth in my heart. I am also aware of the onlookers in that cafe. This elderly man is around his seventies. I m only guessing. Arising out of this kindness act, there are three generations. My youngest daughter is 17, I m in my fifties and the gentleman in his 70’s. we can definitely open everyone’s heart. He spoke Chinese, I spoke English & some Chinese:) It does not matter what language we speak, it is the milk of human kindness that we all yield for. I have asked for my client to share with me how he felt, no answer yet! :dance:
Awesome work Dolly! So great to have you blogging about the challenge. :D You are being quite the exemplar to people, especially those in the same age bracket and phase of life as you! You prove that one can be actively growing and passionate about life no matter how old or young one is.
PS: The article on Kindness Challenge is up in yesterday’s (Nov 1) Wanbao! Your interview quote was inside! :)
I am in and will be blogging at run4kelly.blogspot.com ;)
Hey Celes!
Super excited for this 14-Day Challenge. November’s becoming a month of challenges for me! I’m setting myself some fantastic goals this month, and blogging my journey along the way as part of it. I think blogging about it is a great way to stay motivated, too.
I will be updating my blog every day along the challenge at my blog ‘Welcome to My World’
http://daringtobearit.spruz.com/
:dance:
Awesome work Corey!! :D Just added your blog to the blogroll!
Happy blogging with lots of kindness!
Love :heart: and kindness :)
divyaa :angel:
http://dabs84.blogspot.in/
Just included your site in the blog roll Divya! :D
Hi Celes. I have a blog which I haven’t searched for viewers accurately yet since I just started some weeks ago and still thinking of articles to add but I’ll give you the link soon. Hope it’s not to late to give you the link of my blog yet.(Conflicted a lot whether to yes or no) I’ll write the post first
My blog title: Basked in Sunshine
My blog URL: http://baskedinsunshine.blogspot.com/
The URL of your post: http://baskedinsunshine.blogspot.com/2012/11/join-me-in-14-day-kindness-challenge.html
I’m aware that I’m 3 days late and I hope I’m still on time. :sweat: It’s that since the blog is still so new I was very unsure whether to share it or not but if you’d allow me then I hope I’m still on time. What I’ve had in mind is to write this 3 day’s tasks and then place the right date on each one so in the history it doesn’t look like I wrote them all in one day and from the on actually write one per day.
Hi fufu, that’s beautiful!! I love the strong energy and spirit you have presented in your kickoff post. I’m sure those reading your site will be very inspired by what you share in the next 14 days! I’ve added your site to the blog roll, so welcome aboard! :D
A bit late but thank you Celes so much for the opportunity! :) By the way, there’s something I’d love to let you know Celes!! :dance: , I contacted the local newspaper about my blog and they are gonna interview me next week and I’m going to be in the local newspaper!! :mrgreen: I almost can’t believe it and in less than an hour they had already replied! :D The person that replied said that he considers me to be emotionally mature and that he sees potential for my age (17). I almost want to scream of happiness!! :D I’ll send you the link as soon as the newspaper posts it. This is one of the happiest days of my life. I hope it brings more readers to your blog as well due to the links of PE from the Kindness Challenge! :)
Wow, that’s insane Fufu!! Congratulations and I’m so happy for you! :D Which paper is it and do you know what they will be interviewing you about? (Like the topic or the focus and all?)
Thank you Celes! ;) It’s called ‘Villalba Online’. It’s a newspaper only locals would know about but I still consider a big step and I’m not really sure what the interview will be about, but having read past interviews they might ask questions related with what drove me to start the blog, my vision, my hobbies, what message I’d like to convey for other youths, etc.
Celes!!! The article in “Villalba Online” just came out like half an hour ago! :) It’s in Spanish but you should be able to translate it with google translate (or if you want I can translate it for you)
Here’s the link: http://villalbaonlinepr.com/index.php/home/escuelas/1495-adolescente-villalbena-desarrolla-su-personalidad-con-la-introspeccion-y-el-deseo-de-ayudar.html
As a side note I was so nervous before the interview! :o My heart kept racing but at the same time there was this feeling of excitement and this sensations of the start of something new I hadn’t felt in ages!! When I saw the journalist I smiled slightly and my nervousness went away since he was really kind! We sat at the library where my librarian went crazy and happy because she didn’t knew.
At first he asked simple questions like my full name, where do I live, family members, schools I had gone to and then the other questions made me a bit nervous when he asked my passion, my reason for blogging, what did I wish to study, who did I admire(and I mentioned you Celes :sweat: ). We also talked about the kindness challenge and I told him how the kindness challenge was in PE and how I was sharing my experience from the challenge at PE.
When he asked my passion I noticed how I honestly felt a huge passion on my words when I said “I felt unsatisfied with my life so I wanted to work on a goal. I believe in dreams and I want to help others see the world in a positive light and know that dreams – can – be real. :)
And what surprised me was..that he offered me a post to write for the online newspaper because he liked me style!! My gosh I died right there! :O I accepted and now I’ll be writing one post a week on the newspaper in the “social life” category which is a category for personal development. For now I won’t be paid but I don’t care because I really love writing and it’s always been my dream to write in a newspaper! :love:
I’m so happy I want to hug you right now!! *hugs* If it weren’t because of the kindness challenge I’d had never started blogging officially and as soon as finish writing my posts for the kindness challenge I’ll start writing my own articles. thank you so much for the inspiration!! :hug:
Wow, that is amazing fufu!!! :D I’m so happy for you!!! And I am thinking back to one of the times in the not so distant past when you were just talking about your personal dreams of writing your blog and publishing comic books (and your frustration with the obstacles in your way). Doesn’t this show that when you have the intention, the universe will help you as long as you take action on your dreams??
Aw fufu, I’m so excited that things are now coming your way one wave after another. :D This is definitely great exposure and also a great thing to put on your own portfolio and your resume for the future. Keep us updated on how this gig goes, yeah?? :D Not everyone can claim to have a column in a newspaper, much less someone your age! I’m so proud of you girl!! :D
Thank you Celes! :hug: I hadn’t thought about the part of me being able to claim writing a column at my age from now on. :) And it’s true just some months ago (Maybe even weeks?) I was sad about being unable to share my comic books or my blog but I knew this is what I wanted and the universe is responding well! Cheers and ok I’ll keep you updated occasionally! :)
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