Ginny Dye - Living Out Loud!
Are you brave enough to take the Pledge??
by Ginny Dye on 04/18/10
People ask me exactly what it is that I do... Am I a writer? Do I write & publish the Bregdan Chronicles? Do I run Together We Can Change The World? Am I a marketer? What about 5 Million For Change?
The answer? YES. I do all these things. :) Just depends on what time of the day you're asking me! But today I want to talk about 5 Million For Change because I really do just happen to believe that millions of people fulfilling the "PLEDGE" can change our world!
The 5 Million For Change Pledge is so very simple...
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I raise my hand for 5 Million For Change
I will take time TODAY to make a difference in the world.
I will take time TODAY to do one thing - for one person.
I will take time TODAY to spread some loving and caring in my world.
One thing - TODAY.
EVERYDAY.
Nothing is too small. Nothing is too big.
It is only important to take Action.
I will take time TODAY - to ACT - to create CHANGE!
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And, yes, I know simple does not always mean easy. I wrote this pledge 30,000 feet in the air on my way to a conference where I was speaking. It was written in response to a question I had from a college student at Western Washington University - where I spoke the day before I flew out. He wanted to know what my "Agenda" for 5 Million For Change was. Was it political? Religious? Economical? I realized that in today's world, where almost everyone has an "agenda" that I had to figure out a way to communicate who we are.
Our only agenda is to make our world a better place by empowering people to be deliberate in looking for ways to make a difference. So we created 5 Million For Change, and we're giving away all the resources we spent the last 9 years creating. Yep. FREE. We just want to give you what you need to make a difference!
I know very few people who say they DON'T want to make a difference. Most just don't know what to do... We can help with that! We've created 12 books with over 1300 ideas for things you can do. Do them all, and you can just start repeating!
The important thing is to DO something. It really is true that people don't care about what you say - they care about what you DO.
Are you brave enough to take the PLEDGE. Just go to www.5MillionForChange.com and raise your hand for CHANGE!
Ginny
Heading West...
by Ginny Dye on 04/16/10
I've thought about this through the week, as well as laying in my bed this morning listening to the birds usher in the day as the sun lightened the horizon.
Many years ago a movement swept through America. The call went out to all who had the courage and vision to "Head West." What a picture was drawn for them... The West is where you want to be. There is land for everyone - for the taking! Beautiful. Fertile. Opportunity for everyone. Don't miss your opportunity to be one of the first to stake your claim!
The call went out and hordes signed up to join the wagon trains pulling out of Independence, Missouri. As the pioneers bought supplies and lined up their wagons, their eyes shone with the excitement of what would be waiting at the end of the trail. I think it fair to say not one of them had a real understanding of what lay between Missouri and the far west they envisioned in their dreams.
Can't you hear the conversation...?
"Why, honey," one confident husband says to his rather nervous wife, "there isn't going to be anything to this. We're got a nice, sturdy wagon. We're all together and we have plenty of food. We're just going to roll along this trail for a while and soon we'll have everything we ever dreamed of. Just think of it!"
I don't know how long it was before the starry looks faded from their eyes... I imagine it was somewhere between broken wagon wheels and Indian attacks. Maybe it was the weevils in the flour, or the snowstorm that left them stranded in the mountains for months on end. Perhaps it was losing a child to illness because there were not enough medical supplies, or simply the fatigue that came from fighting dust, heat and long days of the grueling cruelness of the trail.
Every pioneer who started down the path, if they didn't die, had one of three things happen. Some gave up and turned back. Others decided they couldn't take any more and simply build a house where they stopped. Then there were the others... the ones who made it all the way to the West.
Yes - somewhere along the way the starry look faded from their eyes... faded... to be replaced by determination. Broken wagon wheels. Indian attacks. Weevils. Snowstorms. Death. Fatigue. Choking dust and long days. They all became daily obstacles to be endured and overcome. At some point, each person who made it simply decided nothing was going to stop them. They had left behind their former lives to go someplace new. They were going...
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So what about you? Do you have a dream? Do you have something you've started, but then turned back because it seemed too hard? Or maybe you're still on the trail, wondering which obstacle will be the one to destroy what you've worked so hard for.
Maybe you're just looking at the trail, thinking, "No way. Not me. That just looks too hard." Yet your heart yearns to go where the trail will take you.
You have a choice to make every single day. You can stay right where you are, or you can go on an adventure to accomplish what you dream of accomplishing. Not going may seem safer, but the truth is that not going will only assure you stay right where you are in your life.
What do you want? Where do you want to go? The only way to get there is to start your journey - then determine to not let anything stop you. You can do it! You can turn your life into one grand adventure after another. You just have to DECIDE.
I believe in you!
Ginny
I Upset Someone Today
by Ginny Dye on 04/15/10
I upset someone today with The Bregdan Principle. After I got done explaining the concept (which is really so simple), she frowned and said, "That's kinda heavy to think I'm responsible for messing up someone's life."
Her response told me volumes. I smiled and responded, "Who said it was something bad? The Bregdan Principle could also reflect all the wonderful things that happen through history because of what you do." I paused, and then added gently, "If your first thought is that you're messing up someone's life you might want to take a step back and look at what you're doing."
The Bregdan Principle is so simple:
Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person's story to create history. Your life will help determine the course of history. You may think you don't have much of an impact. You do. Every action you take will reflect in someone else's life. Someone else's decisions. Someone else's future. Both good and bad.
I've written the Bregdan Chronicles to bring this principle home to people in a powerful story with compelling characters. Here's the deal... if every person living truly understood how powerful of an impact their everyday action have - no matter whether they head a government or hold a lowly job - they may think more carefully before they act.
I love to write, but my passion to make a difference is MUCH more powerful than that! As I write the Bregdan Chronicles (with Book # 1 - Storm Clouds Rolling In - already in print, and Book # 2 being released in 2 weeks), I hope you will fall in love with them. More than that, I hope you will become mindful of the impact of your actions, words and thoughts!
You can find my books right here. Just go to: www.BregdanChronicles.com . And, yes, there are 3 days left for you to get one of the autographed, first-edition copies. :)
I'd love to know how someone's actions have had an impact on your life, or how someone else's actions - no matter how far back have impacted your life today...
Have a marvelous day!
Ginny
