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Volunteering - 5 Reasons To Help Others In Your Community
By
Connie Ragen Green
Volunteering in your community is fun and rewarding. I
have been volunteering with charities and service organizations for
about a year now and it has changed my life. Here are 5 reasons to
become a volunteer in your community.
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You can get to know the people in your community
who really care about others by taking their time to help out where
they are needed. These people usually live and work in the area and
I like to work beside them in the various programs that have been
set up to help the people in need in our city. I then choose to go
to them when I need a product or service they offer because I know
they are honest and caring human beings.
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I am able to see how my community plans for the
needs of people as our population continues to grow. My city, Santa
Clarita, California, is growing as a much faster pace than the
average city in the United States. Due to this fact, our needs for
the people who live and work here are different than in a city with
slower growth. I enjoy being included in meetings where the mayor
and the citizens discuss matters of great importance to all of us.
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By helping out with projects that are already being
implemented in your community you can see first hand what still
needs to be done. The work being done by some charities and service
organizations will resonate with you more than other programs. You
can then spend more of your time and resources in the areas that you
feel more strongly about helping.
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Volunteering is an opportunity to explore parts of
your life that you may have wanted to work in earlier in your life.
For example, if you thought that you may have wanted to be a teacher
you might work with groups that help children learn to read or to
relate better to their peers. If you had a desire to work in the
medical profession you could give your time to hospitals and clinics
in your community that need volunteers to help out in some aspect of
their work with the people in your area.
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You get the satisfaction of knowing that you are
helping people in need. Many of us have reached out for help of some
kind at one time or another in our lives and it feels good to give
back.
Whether you have volunteered in the past or have never
done so, look for opportunities to give your time and experience to
those who need it most. You may find that one particular area has a need
that only you can fill in the way you feel it needs to be done. All
great charities and service organizations started this way, with one or
two people having a vision about how they would like to serve others.
Connie Ragen Green is a motivational speaker and author
living in the Los Angeles area. She was a teacher for many years and
taught students in grades Kindergarten through twelve. She is also a
real estate broker and residential appraiser, and owns a successful real
estate company in the town of Santa Clarita, just north of Los Angeles.
At the age of fifty Connie decided to reinvent her life and pursue her
passion of writing and motivating others. She helps realtors and other
sales professionals to attract the right clients into their business by
leveraging the power of the Internet. She begins each day by meditating
and then moves on to her writing and coaching. She intends to live each
day with passion, love, and joy. Connie is a featured Writer in
Passionate for Life Magazine’s Living the Passionate Life Department.
www.ReinventYourLifeWithPassion.com
www.SmallBusinessUnMarketing.com
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