Post No. 2,977 - A suggestion for those who do New Year’s resolutions

For those who do New Year’s resolutions, here’s a suggestion: 

consider a resolution to donate to an organisation like Give Directly, which makes small grants to help people (either all or mostly in Africa, I understand) change their lives for the better (for instance, helping a seamstress buy a sewing machine so she can set up her own business)  

We’ve just helped a young friend in Africa complete a Uni course (his graduation is in a couple of weeks) - which is a higher level of commitment, and involved us doing a range of checks (which I won’t go into in case someone tries something similar and gets themselves in to trouble), and it is quite rewarding - and will change not only his life but his family’s as well. 

I am NOT suggesting you consider doing that, but I am suggesting you consider broadening your perspective from the personal to the communal - by which I mean the community of sentient life - and work on goals that will be of benefit to Life. 

The sense of personal reward may even help you with your personal goals ... 

Here are a few links about Give Directly: 

https://www.givedirectly.org/   

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GiveDirectly&oldid=1257745063   

https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org.au/best-charities/givedirectly/  and   https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/charities/givedirectly  

https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities/September-2020-version   (but for other possible ideas, see also   https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities )  

By the way, I don’t do New Year’s resolutions,but I do use goal setting on a different basis.

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)  

Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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