Pay It Forward Guide

If you persevere through your struggles, then you tend to uncover your strength, or in my case I was guided towards my life’s purpose. This book originated from a chapter in my life where I was at my lowest. My unexpected purpose was birthed out of a darkness, a state of depression, someplace I would possibly categorize as rock bottom. However, I learned my most treasured lesson at rock bottom; If you need a miracle become a miracle for someone else. When you take time investing in others, the seeds you sow will certainly make its way back to you much like a boomerang. The energy you put out into the universe, be that positive or negative, unquestionably is returned. What I needed most during this dark time in my life was love, grace, and compassion. So, in turn, this is what I would flood the world with. To pull myself out of darkness with my new mission, I formed a volunteer group consisting of family and friends and our primary focus was to Pay It Forward to others. Pay It Forward means to do a random act of kindness for another in hopes that it touches the receiver’s heart and they in turn continue to pass on the kindness to others. Our intent is to reach out to those who might need an encouraging word to keep moving forward. Support from strangers does wonders for both the volunteers and those on the receiving side of love. When you spend time with those in trying situations, you find you are not alone. Often times you discover your situation does not even compare to what others are going through and it’s with this revelation that your heart opens with compassion and healing for your own situation. With the outreach activities, our non-profit’s hope is to create a ripple effect of kindness throughout our streets, zip codes, cities, states, and eventually the world. Out of my struggles came this volunteer group which evolved into its own non-profit and now the idea of this book. Many pay it forward ideas can be found on websites and internet blogs. However, this book is intended to guide in basic ideas, preparation, planning, and organization for outreach events. This is not an all-inclusive, but it can help in providing ideas on how to coordinate and organize your outreach activities. With this information, you too can spread kindness in your community focusing on supporting specific outreach groups or by taking the personal Pay It Forward challenge. By joining together and spreading love, we can change the trajectory of the world one random act of kindness at a time.