Hey, everyone!
We are a young married couple from Europe taking baby steps to make the World a better place. We really hope you'll be willing to read some of our posts as we can all benefit from it. ;)
In the past few years, we’ve traveled a lot since we really love exploring new places and we simply adore the beautiful sights that nature has to offer all over the globe. But unfortunately, in almost every country of the world, there are some kind of problems. Whether those are political, social or environmental they all have one thing in common – they were mainly caused by mankind. A real shocker, right? Due to the high and intense pace of our lives, people tend to be really inconsiderate towards each other and toward the Mother Nature. Ok, of course, there are also some people who are simply mean but let us hope for the sake of our future that those are in minority.
Now you’re probably thinking who are these two smart asses telling us something we all know, so please, bear with us.
We are aware that most of you out there know what it takes to be a good kid, a good man, a good woman, a good person, a good citizen and ultimately a good Earthling. But if you really think about it, you might realize that you’re actually not doing the best you could. Are we right? Hey, don’t get us wrong we’re not judging, we were exactly the same. That’s why we decided to try and do our best or at least better in the future.
For the past 12 months, we have been doing one nice thing for our planet or fellow human each week, which we've used to change our habits into being more environmentally oriented. We can call those tasks “weekly challenges”. They've really worked on us and helped us changed quite a lot. Since the two of us can’t change much by doing this alone we would really like to urge you guys to join us.
Why helping others is important?
We are pretty sure you can answer that question on your own. And we also think that most of you know that in general being a good Earthling means we have to be kind, polite and respectful to fellow human beings, or at least live by the rule: treat others the way you’d like others to treat you, help those in need, respect, and fight for animal rights, don’t pollute Mother Nature in any way, maybe even help clean it and so on.
“If you treat people right they will treat you right … ninety percent of the time.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
But since the majority of us have really a lot on our plates most of the time, it’s very hard to do all of these things, especially those demanding some extra time, effort and thinking.
Helping others is easy!
With our posts, we’ll make it really simple for you since you won’t have to think about what to do to contribute to making the world a better place. You’ll just check the posts on our site and follow the instructions. And of course we’ll start off nice and easy and we’ll spice things up as we go along.
That’s why some of these challenges will be totally basic and easy and many of you’ll be able to just check off some of the tasks as soon as you’ll read them since you’re already doing certain stuff the way a Good Earthling should. Good for you! Just keep up the good work. And since some tasks will be habit changing orientated, don’t just do them once because of the challenge, try and make those a part of your daily routine in the future.
Helping others is fun!
Once you’ll join us you’ll be telling all your friends and family about it. Some of them will also join in on this challenge and then you’ll be able to talk about it, many of you’ll be posting selfies of performing an individual task on Facebook and most importantly you’ll feel better about yourself knowing you’re doing something great for your Earth and other Earthlings. We assure you that you won’t regret it. So remember, good deeds are fun!
Ground rules
As mentioned above, we plan on posting one challenge each week and we sure hope you’ll do the best you can to finish it in a week and that you'll do the best you can to make it a part of your habit (not applicable to every challenge).
We understand that many of you won’t have time to do every task in the corresponding week, especially once we get to some harder or at least more time-consuming ones. If so, try and perform those later on. And since many of you will be joining in as we go along you can simply join in on the current task. But for those of you who are willing to also do all or some of the missed challenges, we sure urge you to do so.
**We believe we are all willing to help but sometimes we just need a little push. So consider our posts as your push. ;)
"Alone we can accomplish many great things. Together we can change the world."
-Estefania Guadalupe Estrada
Love,
Good Earthlings