Dear Difference Maker,

Today’s movie is a true story…

In 1988, a teacher in New York acknowledged and honored every one of her high school students. Then she invited her students to honor people throughout their community. One of these acknowledgments dramatically altered the life of a business man and his 14 year-old boy.

I’d like to thank you in advance for a few moments of your time to bring you this movie that along with it’s originator, Helice Bridges, we created to stream online  in the hope it will change millions of lives.

Maybe you’ve seen this movie before.  It’s profound message never gets old.  I’m writing you today because you are a leader in a position to make a huge difference within your circle of influence.

It is a reminder to us all to speak those compliments and acknowledgments as we are thinking them and not hold back because we just never know when … Our Presence May Be The Very Present Someone Needs.

Take a second to share it with others. They’ll thank you for it!

In just two weeks, May arrives and with it comes Mental Health Awareness Month.  So, if this true story touched your heart, I encourage you to share it with the world and join us on our mission to empower and inspire millions of people around the globe.

… grab a cup of jo and click here to enJoy today’s video.

Together we can spread words of Encouragement, Inspiration & Empowerment one movie at a time… and wouldn’t you agree our world could use a little more positivity these days!

Reaching out …

PS … This video is available for personal use and/or public presentations in Full-Screen, High-Def for immediate download with licensing. Click here.

Use Words That Heal

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BEING nice? I remember when I’d come to my mother complaining that the other kids were being mean. She would tell me to just be nice. I thought I was being nice! We reap the results of our efforts; therefore, I must not have been as nice as I thought I had been.

The children were providing me with excellent opportunities to put myself back in my driver’s seat by being nice. Using nice words defeats the intent of a negative and lifts you up and out of the victim position. It is taking your power back, and then expressing an inner caring, which can outweigh the pain and confusion someone may be directing at you.

It didn’t make sense to me when my mother told me to be nice. I have found most children and even some adults have a difficult time understanding how this works. It would seem to some that attacking someone back would be what the other person deserved. How often in our own anger and disappointment we try to get back at the world for our pain? This only brings more separation and pain to both parties involved.

Being nice means choosing words that reflect gentleness and caring. Words heal. I have found that using words which transmit kindness and love dismantles the anger and pain. Use words that heal, that touch another person’s inner self, the place where all goodness comes.

Watch how words and acknowledgement heal, in times of joy as well as challenge. The words you use, and the tone of your voice can be very calming and nurturing to people. It is a gift of human caring that you receive as well when you extend words that heal.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
0 Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
To be understood,
as to understand,
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that
we are pardoned,
It is in dying to self
that we are born to eternal life.
-ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

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