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The last time Dr. Wayne Dyer was on the show, he and Ellen challenged Ellen's viewers to spend the month of May giving back to the community. These days, there are so many people in need of a helping hand. Your self-sacrifice doesn't have to be monumental, it can literally be a helping hand. The month is almost over, but it's not too late to be a part of this wonderful experiment. Ellen and Dr. Dyer promise that the great feeling you'll get back will be worth your time and effort. So go ahead, volunteer at a homeless shelter, clean up the litter in your park, clean out your closet and give your old clothes to Goodwill. And be sure to tell Ellen about it. We want to keep track!
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Time Is Running Out on Dr. Wayne Dyer and Ellen's Good Deed Challenge
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Hi Ellen,
This is me again.One of the 4 women from New-Brunswick Canada.
I just want to comment on Wayne Dyer, when he said, that he could feel how nice you are Ellen, with your staff and everything.
On March 28, I was watching your show from Riff Raff St. in Universal Studio. I'm the one who handed you a note before you got into your car. I was watching your staff, they look so happy and content. After he said that, I said to my husband, it is so true what he (Wayne) said. We could feel it. When I return to Canada I talk about it (you being sooo nice) to my customers. My husband(a good man) said you can tell she is genuine.
Love you,keep up the good work
Marie-Reine
Well Ellen,,,I,m so thankful for you & Dr.Dyer,s...There,s not alot of kindness, and giving ,out here.So that,s why we love you, my grandchildren whom I,m raising are so grateful.I,ts the perfect show we dance with you and Lord knows, Ellen how you make us laugh,and when Dr.Dyers is on, it,s valadation of our many struggles.I don,t have much left to give only of myself to others.Last week I went to see my brother, he is good with fixing cars, he is now retired,I ask if he could fix the brake,he sent me on my way and said,You better get another car it,s not worth fixing.I turned and walk away,as tears rolled down my face.I quess I will be walking from now on, it would of only taken him a little time,,,,Stuck in the basement with no yard,,Much Love to you Ellen & Dr.Dyers
Dear Ellen,
I am disabled by a chronic pain condition, fibromyalgia.I rarely get out of the house, and there aren't many volunteer opportunities for someone who may or may not be able to make it out of bed each day. BUT, I am a member of a couple of different chronic pain online support groups.So, part of my contribution to making the world a better place is just to be more active in those groups. It's extremely hard to live the way some of us do- in constant pain, and with so many-even in the medical community- suspicious of us and our diagnosis.Sometimes the support of others who understand because they live with the same thing is the only thing that keeps many of us going.So, by trying to be more active,even if it's only offering a cyber-hug, maybe I CAN make a difference, even if I can't get out and do much physically.
Thank you for all you do,you AND Wayne Dyer
have done automechanics for 20 years now always stopping and helping people onside the road starting in fla from the time I was 13 moved to missouri learning new trades along the way so now in montana knowing a wide variety of trades still helping people / I'm lucy to make $1500 a year still helping people when I can / I guess my question is when do you think my carma will catch up? cause im just as poor as when i grew up and have always helped people / i know money isnt everything but does help just something to think about thanks for your time
My son and cook for a good friend of us he is blind at birt. my son and I donated clothed and shoes for less fortune from my other son day care.we always looking for something kind to say to others. we also going to visit this lady to a nursing home . in helping an a shelter.
If I ever have the urge to give something to a complete stranger, I do. I encourage others to do the same. For example, if you see someone walking in the rain without an umbrella, get them an umbrella or give them your extra umbrella. If someone is short money at the cash register, help them out. If you have lots of clothes you don't want any more, give them to someone who you know will need them. These are just a few things that can make a difference.
Not only does it help or make someone else's day or make them smile, you feel great about what you have done. Maybe those people will pay it forward and good karma lives on!
Ellen,
In compareson my contributions are minimal but here we go...I went through all my kids clothes (we have a few kids :-) and placed the sizes on a local website where people who need them could get them, rather than donating to someplace that would resell them. One mother took two sizes and one of her children is severely disabled. That made me feel real good.
My son's birthday is tomorrow and since he's going to be "double diggits" 10 I asked him to go through his old toys he doesn't play with anymore and we donated them to an org that deals with foster children.
Last but not least, my kids school is an intrigrated school with children from all social-economic backgrounds ut DOES NOT have a school library. I started by going into our own book and donating the owns that they don't read anymore or have outgrown. Then I started to ask different plaes to do the same....little league parents, local dance school etc.
The school thinks that the kids can go to a public library, or use the internet but the hard truth is, some of these families are struggling to get by and working two jobs just to pay the bills, so this is not in the cards for them. I want to get 10,000 book for them ( little ambitious) by Aug. when school starts. Literacy is too important.
THEN>>>I WROTE YOU about the neo game. They don't have a playground and provide a free of cost afterschool program to keep the kids safe. I'm hoping you can help with this one.
Kelly
My mother-in-law works with a young man whose daughter had been diagnosed with Wilm's Tumor, a form of childhood cancer. My in-laws decided to donate a trip for a fundraiser for the hospital where this little girl was getting treatment for her cancer.
This wonderful family has been an inspiration to so many as once the original treatment for their daughter was over, and it was time to find out the prognosis, this beautiful little girl learned that her first nearly year of treatment was not as successful as they had hoped, and she would begin a whole new line of treatment for the second year in a row. Again, my in-laws came through, but this time decided to head up their own raffle and raise funds for the family. The raffle ran for three months and Emily, 11 years old, pulled the winning raffle ticket winner on May 1st and was presented a huge cardboard check for $17,000 which my mother-in-law had raised just through donating a trip to Orlando. It was 3 months of fundraising work, but my mother-in-law was so happy doing it, despite the fact that she works, she helps care for 7 grandchildren of her own, and right in the middle of this fundraiser, she suffered a serious spine injury from a fall that had knocked her unconscious and for which she had endured serious spinal surgery.
Despite it all, she found a way to keep up the good work and raise $17,000 for this family.
My mother-in-law is still on medical leave, and I know she would love the opportunity to meet Ellen and be in her audience!
Thank you so much for your consideration.
Marylee Rozek
North Royalton, Ohio
Hi! I was in the audience during Dr. Dyer's very first Ellen appearance! I love his thinking and share in it.
I was on the Earth Day Committee and Wildlife Council that formed at my job and volunteered on Earth Day handing out trees in a tube for co-workers to "adopt a tree." I had a feeeling I would be part of a mass lay-off that was taking place the next day, but I marched forward, bringing home some of my belongings.
When I watched ellen's Earth Day show, Dr. Dyer's words "prepared" me for whatever was coming at work. The next day, I got the "call" and I was part of a large group that was let go. It's left me wondering how we went from the saying "getting laid" to "getting laid off," but that's another story...
The lay off hasn't stopped me though, from my plans to donate to my high school or to Make It Right. Even though I was telling myself, "I should have done this last month," I didn't worry - I thought about what Dr. Dyer said, that in giving what we have, we get more, and I remembered him saying that he gives away what he has.
So, I doubled my donation to my high school, encouraged the girls from my graduating class to donate $20 for 20 years for our 20th reunion and I donated to Make It Right.
And I feel gooood, just like Tony the Tiger when he eats his frosted flakes....
Thanks and luv ya,
Liz
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In case anyone wants to feel good. I am weeks away from losing my home. I am disabled, and have been trying desperately to make ends meet by doing part time jobs, but my health can't take it, so I have been trying to find a job that I can do from my home. All that I have researched are scams. If anyone knows of, or has a job that I can do from home, you can let me know about it. I am college educated, and good at typing and data entry etc. I don't want to beg for charity, just want to work and stay in my home. This is not a joke, and I will be living in my car with my five rescued cats. I cannot go into an apartment because of them, and two of them are over 12 years old, and I am afraid that being homeless will kill them. I really can't even afford an apartment either, with or without my cats. I really need a job. I could live on $2400. each month.
Posted by Sharon | June 12, 2008 5:14 PM