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Letter: Small efforts impact others

By Kathy Eckels, Vancouver
Published: September 6, 2015, 6:00am

Are you living your life to benefit yourself, your family, friends, neighbors, animals, and the environment in which you live? Every minute of every day, from the time we get up in the morning until bed time, we make choices. We either choose to walk toward the light or toward darkness.

Change just 10 percent of everyday decisions to walk toward the light. Take a small step today. If you need to treat someone in your family better, make a small effort — just do it and you will begin to make a change. They will change, too. Be an influence on people. Everything you do, inside and outside of your home, is an influence, from the time you go out the door to standing in line at the coffee counter until the drive home.

Decide, today, to start making just a 10 percent change about your negative decisions, and watch the change in your life start. Say hello to your co-worker with a smile, or to a passer-by with a friendly nod. Give 10 minutes to that project in the corner, or book you need to read, whatever it is you’ve been avoiding — you know what it is — and watch the change. We can make a change in ourselves and those around us in order to improve the way things are all over.

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