Mar 4, 2015
Once you read this you're obligated to tell yourself that you matter, that you are worth it and that you are good enough. 'Cause little mush, this world wouldn't be the same without you, so please stay.
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Once you read this you're obligated to tell yourself that you matter, that you are worth it and that you are good enough. 'Cause little mush, this world wouldn't be the same without you, so please stay.
Think Kindness board meeting going on now. Mapping out our year of kindness.
Brian Williams + Think Kindness
Brian Williams founded Think Kindness -- a non-profit organization devoted to spreading random acts of kindness. A Reno native and Manogue High grad voted by his classmates "Most Likely to be a Priest," Brian is a motivational speaker by trade, but his calm cool demeanor mean you won't know it upon meeting him. Then he gets up in front of a crowd and then you know. He *lights up* and you and everyone else in the audience hear every word he says. Brian is a busy guy. He works with Soles4Souls to bring shoes from American kids to kids in need across the world. Last year, they made a documentary Tumaini Smiles about the process, and he's already at work on a new documentary The Roots of Happiness to premiere this Spring. As we speak he is on the road somewhere in the US challenging schools to be "The Kindest School in the Country." Elementary schoolers participate by documenting personal acts of kindness, and middle and high schoolers participate by donating shoes. As of today 203,235 acts have been documented, and 58,992 youths have been challenged. And he's been working with Reno hospital Saint Marys getting employees to donate blankets to needy: 1,045 blankets were donated in 4 weeks. Oh, and he's a martial artist that breaks bricks: a real crowd-pleaser (as if he needed one). Needless to say, he's kind of impressive. And he approaches it all with this childlike enthusiasm that challenges people to reminisce about their youth, when their actions were driven by simpler things. What's up with all this charity? Was he born with this natural sense of goodness and good will? What's in it for him?
Brian Williams is, I think, in the top 10 of young, progressive martial arts thinkers and (and this is the important part) DOERS in the WORLD. He's an action-taker extrordinaire. See his project www.ThinkKindness.org --which, for me, is a factor in how Brian will be earning his 5th degree black belt (he started taking lessons with me when he was 5-years-old).
Backed by a support team of classmates, including Frank Kelly Abella and Rori Geotze and other UBBT members, Brian has traveled to Kenya, made two documentaries (one is in production) about his trips, and is getting very near a quarter of a million recorded acts of kindness --done with the help of nearly 60,000 young people.
Go Brian!