Comments on: The Survivor Mindset: Deal With Your Stuff By Helping Others

By: Mean Things

Mean Things — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:35:00 +0000

I do a lot of charity work. whats funny is I find myself doing it because it distracts me from my own miserable life. Mean Things's last blog post..Insulting Things to say to People

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Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:24:41 +0000

[...] the last post we were talking about the the survivor mindset and how survivors deal with their stuff by helping others. For those just joining us, the “survivor mindset” is simply a term I was using to [...]

By: Charfish Charlie

Charfish Charlie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:00:53 +0000

Damn, Dave. LOVE LOVE LOVE this post.

For about 3 years now, I’ve been doing “Philanthropy Fridays”. That’s my time to go out into the community to try and unbalance the solo-entrepreneur residue the rest of the week leaves me with. Street clean-ups, drug talks, tutoring, one-on-one help….all sorts of stuff.

It was hard to do at first and felt like too much time away from the office. But now it is my favorite day of the week. Wouldn’t miss it for the world.

Thanks for the classy post. And for hitting the dreaded “help” topic.

By: Lisa Gates

Lisa Gates — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:52:57 +0000

Hi Dave...Incredible post and nice to meet you after lurking. Today, I think we might be twins separated by blogs. Just wrote a post this morning about service, inspired by none other than the Huffpo. How Living in Balance Changes the World: Small Steps, Bigger Commitments

By: chris Zydel

chris Zydel — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:50:24 +0000

P.S. Just LOVE your line "If pain seems meaningful, you can take an infinite amount of it." Reading that made me cry.... Thanks, Chris chris Zydel's last blog post..The ART OF INNER CLUTTER CLEARING: MAKING ROOM FOR WHO YOU REALLY ARE

By: chris Zydel

chris Zydel — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:46:50 +0000

Really loving this survivor mindset series, Dave.

And yes, being of service to someone who is in pain helps you deal with your own pain because such a big part of why we suffer when we are hurt very badly is because of the sense of powerlessness that we feel. And helping another allows us to regain that sense of power by feeling like we are able to make a difference in someone else’s life.

Which also means that we need to let ourselves be on the receiving end of getting help at times,so we can give others that experience of empowerment!

It’s all one big, cool circle of love and healing! Yay survivors!!!