It's working

Build it and they will come ~ Bull Durham

The movement has begun and just like a freight train when it leaves the station someone pulls a small block from in front of the wheels and the big heavy train starts moving.  The train moves very slowly at first but with each revolution of the wheels the speed seems to double until soon the train is moving at full speed. It takes almost as long and more energy to stop a train at full speed than it takes to get it moving.
The point to this illustration is show that once a movement has begun you don't want to stop it but more importantly if you were going to catch the train it's much easier to do it in the beginning than it is when it's at full speed.
I started by making a weekly practice at being kind, spreading kindness,and doing good deeds just on Facebook. Then with blogging, then with Twitter, and Google+, then with a podcast.  At first only on the weekends, then talking about kindness, during the week then, doing good deeds and spreading kindness during the week, until now I'm talking about it and doing something about kindness daily it has become a part of my life and a part of me. At first I could see the happiness and joy that I was bringing to to the people around me.  I could see the differences that I was making in those lives and that was fun, exciting and addictive. The more I spread kindness the more I want to spread it and just like last weeks post the more I look for kindness the more I find.
I have taken notice of kindness just recently on a much larger scale but more amazingly then finding it on my own it's been shared with me by different and sometimes unexpected people. I don't think that I directly inspired the kindnesses that they shared but I do think that just by having the thoughts, feeling and intentions out into the universe that other AMAZING people picked up on the energy and vibration. Those people do and think of AWESOME things and ways to inspire and spread kindness. More importantly I'm surprised by some of the people who shared these links with me it lets me know that kindness is on their radar!
I can now see, hear and feel kindness a little more every day where ever I go this makes me happy and lets me know that it's working! Here are some of the links to kindness that were shared with me this week I know you will enjoy them!
One girl,89 random acts of kindness
Pink stops concert for crying girl!
This one shared by my 15 yr old son call a good guy compilation
Enjoy the links and as always thank you for reading and remember we are not here for a long time we are here for a good time so be kind to each other!

The New Podcast

I’m so excited about our new edition to the Kindness Initiative Network (KIN) The KIN Connection Podcast
The podcast was released last Sunday February 10th,2013 it is currently only available at the link that I shared above. I hope to have it and the next ones to follow posted to a site that I’m working on at Podbean. Then it will be available on itunes and part of a podcast directory so that it  can be easily found and downloaded by anyone on an device.
What I’m most excited about is that it’s not just me and my guest(s) tutting our own horns…..O.K. there might be a little of that. The first episode was a little rough because we are still in the learning phase but I still think it came out pretty good. The first one just describes what we plan to do with the podcast and the most exciting part is that we are trying to make it interactive. We have encouraged the listener to provide the content for the podcast through their posts and comments to our social media sites.http://www.facebook.com/KindnessInitiativeNetwork,  https://twitter.com/KINconnection  as well as here on the blog. We will choose a few great post and comments each week we will read them and discuss them in depth as well as relate them to the topic for the week.  We will also be adding something back that was a favorite from the beginning and that is the KIN challenge where we will challenge the audience each week to a kind act or good deed.
I’m really looking forward to expanding our group and it’s potential on this new platform. I believe there are a endless possibilities and opportunities to this new platform of pod-casting  and I can’t wait to see where this is going to take us.
Thanks for reading and until next time I will be doing my part to change the way the world thinks and works one good deed at a time.  Will you?

Thank you for connecting with KIN

  I have started this blog as a way to reach out to even more people. Our Facebook group even though it’s small is very POWERFUL we are changing the lives of so many for the better with our kindnesses and people are inspired to do more all the time!
This group has been a real eye opener for me to see how man people want to live in a better more kinder world and how many people are willing to do what it takes to make it happen!
“KIN’ also known as the Kindness Initiative Network Established in July of 2012, KIN’s mission is to change the way the world thinks and works one good deed at a time by attempting to unite all humanity through kindness and good deeds. We welcome people from every walk of life. It is our kind actions and our desire to make the world a better place that define us, rather than age, sex, culture, ethnicity, social status, financial status and religious preference. It is our mission to treat everyone with kindness, respect and dignity and to offer hope and positivity in as many ways as we are capable. Offering a smile or a compliment, giving our time and effort, sharing our talents, kind words, and even material things if we can do so without causing physical, financial or emotional distress to ourselves. We do this with passion and joyfulness so that we may spread kindness all over the world and so that we can all live as one family, or KIN.