Pay it Forward!

Hi all! I awoke this morning with the usual agenda described in my last blog. Something happened on the way to the computer. (Remember that old movie, "Something Happened on the Way to the Forum?" You'd have to be a boomer to remember that!)

Well, I had an epiphany! All these months of soul searching, meditating and researching online marketing is about to be put to use in a very exciting project that will be announced soon on this blog.

You ask what kind of project? It's a project that will extend across the United States, employ people like myself and reach out to help others who have lost their jobs and even their homes. The beauty is that everyone in this country can help, can "pay it forward" with very little effort.

It's a project that addresses the mortgage crisis by directly helping the courageous people who have landed in tent cities. It's a project that addresses the depressed economy and the increasing unemployment rate by gaining attention for these individuals and by putting people back to work. It's a project that brings unemployed professionals together under a common cause of helping others while helping themselves. It's a collaborative project that President Obama has been asking our nation to come together and accomplish.

What catalyzed this epiphany? Last night on the news I saw a story about a drive-through coffee business where an individual started a trend by paying for the person's coffee behind them. It caught on, and now the town's people continue to pay it forward in order to not break the chain of giving. One gentleman explained that buying a $3 coffee for someone already in line probably didn't help the people who really needed it but that the concept is worth holding onto. It unites people who are stepping outside of themselves to be generous to someone they don't know.

This morning, I put that concept together with an idea that has been building in me for some months. So stay with me and get others to plug into this blog. By next week, I'm hoping to have the details complete and ready to announce. You can be certain I will be working on it continuously until it happens.