It is one month since the Poker Face Final and I have just returned home from the ITV Central News East Midlands TV Studio where I launched a £65 Go MAD Challenge to identify 100 business people who want to help others make a difference.
If you are genuine about using £65 of my money to help others, I invite you to at least match my £65 with £65 of your own and involve the people in your business to generate possible ways to make the greatest difference in helping others. I will also provide an additional £130 worth of personal development materials to help you, or a team, with your thinking.
Only a couple of guidance rules:
1) The money must be directly used to help others ( if you ask for yourself, you will not receive help) and not donated to a third party (eg a charity). This is not a fundraising exercise - it is about involving others and using our thinking skills to make a real difference in the lives of others.
2) If you can involve others and make it a sustainable project, that would be even better (see June from Australia's comment on my last posting for a bit of inspiration).
If you or your colleagues are interested, then tell me a bit about what you propose to do and who you will involve. Come on let's Go MAD and create a positive ripple effect.
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Have you watched the film "Pay It Forward" where people do good deeds to help others, who in turn do good deeds to help even more people? What you are doing seems similar, so why not look to help people with £65 who one day will help someone else with £65 or equivalent? Hope this stimulates other peoples thinking.
We facilitated this type of thinking with a group yesterday and challenged 25 individuals to each come up with 15 possibilities about how they might use £65 to help young people, with four ideas being chosen to receive £65.
The thoughts that are now being taken forward are (i)taking a group of children to Stratford (ii)using £65 to help with a youth group (iii) one person will be taking the £65 and setting up a 'young entrepreneur' scheme, giving 6 young people £10 each and challenging them to turn this in to £65 to help others (the other £5 wil pay for the 'launch' and (iv)one youth worker is running his own £65 Challenge exercise with his group encouraging them all to generate ideas to make differences ... all in all a real combination of delegates helping others and groups 'Paying It Forward'.
The possibilities are great, even if you only put 10-20 minutes aside for thinking!
Yes, I agree with you Pete - "Paying it Forward" rather than paying it back is a great idea. Well done Graham and Richard for kickstarting it off. Let's do more of these activities to help people consider the possibilities. andy
You have got me thinking.
I have been doing it again! I have challenged a friend of mine who works with a community trust in Birmingham to see what sort of difference he could make for people who use the trust. He has taken the challenge and is now busy thinking of ways he could make a difference with £65. The interesting thing is seeing how £65 can open doors and remove barriers for people!
Interesting to know.
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