What a fun contest! The staff at Freedom Personal Development had a great time reading through all 64 charity nominations and voting for the winners. We wished every charity could have received a donation. It was truly inspiring to learn about the work people all over the globe are doing to help others.
Here are the top three charities that won as well as what the money will be used for:
1st Place – $1,000 to Byron Katie’s The Work Foundation www.thework.com
The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. Read More...
Happy Holidays! In the spirit of the season, the winners of our blog contest this month will be three charities, and we need your help to find them!
Please tell us what is your favorite charity and why. From your responses, we will be picking three charities to make donations to. Between first, second and third place, we will be giving a total of $1,600!
To enter the contest, at the bottom of this page, simply type your name, email and website (if you have one) and your answer to this question:
What is your favorite charity and why?
Submit Your Answer
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I trust everyone had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends!
Hopefully our November’s contest spurred some interesting conversations over Thanksgiving dinner on what outside of the box people, places and things your loved ones were grateful for.
Thank you to everyone that participated in our Outside the Box Thankfulness Contest.
It was an amazing experience for me to read each comment and it is so evident how gratitude (yours or someone else’s) is incredibly contagious.
To everyone who shared something they were thankful for, I loved Read More...
Happy November! As Thanksgiving is several weeks away, this month’s contest focuses on gratitude.
When it comes to giving thanks and being grateful for the people, places and things in our lives, there are some obvious items that are usually ranked first on most people’s lists. Family, health, food, clothing, housing, job, church/spirituality and good friends regularly top the lists.
For this year’s contest, we want to go past the obvious and explore some the lesser-mentioned items that we are grateful for.
The question to answer this month is:
What 3 “outside of the box” items are you truly thankful for and Read More...
Thank you everyone who participated in our What Would You do if Time and Money Were No Concern Contest. I know that I felt inspiration just reading your answers, so I can’t imagine how good it felt to write these.
In coming up with a Top 3, I faced a daunting task. If it were possible, we would make you all winners.
Let’s be very clear here, if your response isn’t in the top 3, you should know that just about everyone of them was a tie, and the ones chosen as winners had some points for a different way of saying things that others also said, or had Read More...
Many of us are bogged down in our day-to-day life with too many concerns. Not enough time and definitely not enough money.
This month’s contest is based on a very easy question. But this question has led many people to profound answers and discoveries of things that they did not even know about themselves.
If you decide to participate in this contest, you will gain some clues into what your purpose is on this planet and where truly meaningful goals will come from.
The question is:
What 5 Things would You Do if Time and Money Were No Concern?
(enter by posting a comment below)
Really let your imagination run wild, but one guideline Read More...
With students returning to the classroom this month, we wanted to focus this month’s contest around education.
Education is the cornerstone to professional success and if you continue to invest in education over the course of a lifetime, constantly improving your skills, the heights you will reach personally and professionally are limitless.
So, the question to answer for this month’s contest is:
What is the most important concept you learned in school and why?
This could be anything that you learned in grades K-12. It could be a particular subject that has served you in adulthood, a life’s lesson a teacher taught you or a kernel of knowledge that has Read More...
If you are a reader of this blog, you more than likely have a goal. You took the time to carefully plan it out. You made sure it was meaningful to you, specific, measurable, had a due date, the right size, written down and reviewed. But now that you are halfway through the year you realize you haven’t made the progress you were hoping for.
Some obstacles may have come up, aka roadblocks to your success. They might have been big or small, you may or may not have had control over them, but one thing is clear. To reach your goal you must overcome them.
So for this month’s contest, we want to know:
What is your biggest obstacle towards hitting your goals and how do you overcome Read More...
There were so many fantastic comments, over 120 in fact! Thank you for the great participation and for making the Time Management Contest one of our most popular to date!
Your answers represented many valuable aspects of time management from prioritizing, to doing important first, to Covey’s quadrants, to the importance of family and personal time.
Some of your comments about giving tasks A, B, C priorities reminded me of my mom’s weekly plans she made every Sunday growing up (I learned a lot from her!).
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Face it, life is hectic. With juggling a professional career, meetings, family obligations, appointments, your kids’ extra curricular activities, trying to live healthy, keeping up-to-date with current with current affairs, we hardly have time to sleep!For this month’s contest, we want to know your advice on how to effectively manage your time.
To enter, simply type you name, email and your answer to this question:
If you were coaching an individual on time management, in your opinion, what is the one concept that they should absolutely know?
Winners will be based on how concise their answer is, applicability and quality of Read More...
