Tracy Porter: It is a perfect today to be extraordinary. I know you are all ready our extraordinary. All of you but it such a good day for this message and you know this is a message that is near and dear to my heart and has been I think for a very long time. Probably since I was a kid but it is the message of sharing yourself.
Now here’s the deal with this message you guys. This is not a message of guilt or anything like that. This is not just a really cool way to connect with other people and for me I’m inspired by so many people around me and how they have found ways to connect.
So, I’m always paying attention to that kind of stuff and I thought I would share it with you. So by sharing yourself, really what I mean is in whatever way it works for you. It might be writing a letter, it might be baking something for someone like that is such a great way that my mom shares of herself. I’ll come home the biggest, great pop roasted something in their refrigerator and I love it so much. I know it makes her happy and it makes us really happy too. We love that. You know another thing that I do is shared myself is I have pen pals.
So my pen pals are in there 90s and it’s a very feel good thing for me but I know that it is for them too. I know that they do not get a lot of mail or a lot of little fun boxes or things like that. And so, I know it’s very special when you know someone comes to their door and brings them something. You know what, when I get a piece of mail, I get really excited by it.
So I know that my grandmother who is in here 90s and a dear friend of mine who was my Grandma Lucy’s friend who’s now my pen pal also. When I send her thanks, I know it’s a great thing and then she mails thing to us. You know what have our kids do on the weekends is I have them sit down every weekend and write a letter to somebody, anybody. Its usually one of our relatives because that’s a way for them to connect but I want them to learn now whether they’re little that connecting this people is such great thing. It is healing and nurturing for your soul and it is a great way to re-talk to somebody else and let them know that you’re thinking of them and that you care and you know you have no idea what’s going in their world.
Listen, it can be an email. It can be whatever it is. Smoke signals, you send the bottle and the water. You know whatever way you want to connect with people I think it’s just a wonderful thing to do and you know there are so many ways to be extraordinary of course.
This is just a little tiny thing and like I said, you guys this is a no guilt thing. It’s just a feel good thing and that’s the most amazing thing about being extraordinary is it should always be a feel good thing.
Transcription by:
Scribe4you Transcription Services