We need people! We need the interaction. We need to get outside of ourselves. Serving is an excellent way to be social and feed our spirit (double whammy). The youth struggle with social interactions. Face to face interactions. They are so used to communicating through a device they don't know how to communicate in real life.
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Goals
- Volunteer (animal shelter, homeless shelter, check your community calendar for other opportunities) Check out the justserve app to find service opportunities in your area.
- Join a club (check with your library, school or city hall)
- Be more assertive https://nobelcoaching.com/emotional-skills/
- Improve your listening skills
- Improve your emotional self awareness
- Be more organized
- Sit by someone new every Tuesday
- Choose a relationship you would like to strengthen and make a plan for how you will do that (grandparent, parent, sibling, friend, etc)
- Write a letter or send a card to someone once a month
- Volunteer (animal shelter, homeless shelter, check your community calendar for other opportunities) Check out the justserve app to find other opportunities for service in your area.
- Join a club (check with the library or city hall)
- Play a board or card game
- Make a card and sent it to someone
- Plan a picnic
- Plan a movie marathon (what will you watch, when, food, who's invited)
- Have a water fight
- Choose a community event to attend
- Create a scavenger hunt
- Read to Lincoln
- Serve a neighbor
- Send someone a box of sunshine
- Write to a pen-pal (soldier, child in a hospital, favorite author, missionary)
- http://www.cardsforhospitalizedkids.com/make-general-cards.html
- https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/sponsored-content/USPS/how-write-letters-encouragement/
- http://www.operationwearehere.com/IdeasforSoldiersCardsLetters.html
- https://www.operationgratitude.com/express-your-thanks/write-letters/
- https://www.stjude.org/get-involved/other-ways/holiday-cheer-online-card.html?sc_icid=gi-mm-tg-holidaywishes
- Find people you know who could use some happy mail. My friend recently told me of some of her family struggles so I decided to write to her daughters. We'll see how that goes.
- Plan a family talent show
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