Do you feel bad for having hurt someone at some time? Welcome to the club. Self-Forgiveness may seem like an unusual choice for a blog about Generosity, but forgiving yourself is all about generosity. When you are generous to yourself, you love yourself enough to understand that even if you aren't perfect, even if you've done bad things, you are still a good person. And it's about generosity, because being generous to others is one of the best ways to heal your pain and restore your belief Continue Reading

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. A.A. Milne If you want to raise children who are grateful for what they have, then you must teach them gratitude. The most important way they learn gratitude is by seeing you and hearing you practice gratitude. They will learn from your example. But you may also encourage them to express their own gratitude, and since gratitude can be too abstract of a concept for children to Continue Reading

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler,a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny A woman I had just met said she knew I would love this book. She took my address, so she could mail it to me. To my surprise, the book arrived in the mail just a couple days later. How often have you said you'd do something like that and then actually done it? Please tell me that I'm not the only person with good intentions but doesn't always follow through! Anyway, Continue Reading

Each month, we honor a person who is Living Generously. When I saw the news that Nicholas Winton passed away at the age of 106, I knew I had to share his story with you. Nicholas was a London stockbroker when World War 2 started. A friend invited him to Prague to see the conditions of the refugees in person, and Nicholas went with the intention of helping. He didn't know HOW, but he knew he had to do something. In Prague, he witnessed violence and desperate living conditions, and he Continue Reading