A Billion Hours of Good: Changing the World 14 Minutes at a Time

Real and Lasting change comes more often in tablespoons than in buckets. A billion hours is equivalent to 114,000 years. That's how much good we're going to do together. Just 14 minutes at a time. You don't need more money or time or even another election cycle to bring transformational change to your community. What you need is to believe that daily microdoses of good over years and years can create a great return. Stop waiting for the big change moment and seize the good that you can do today. Join Chris in pledging 1 percent of your time (14 minutes a day) to make the world a better place. Learn how to solve old problems in new ways, and walk with Chris as he shows you how he started Mercy Project-a nonprofit committed to ending child trafficking in Ghana. See how compassion and care can serve as rocket fuel for deep courage and untapped creativity. Our responsibility in a world filled with suffering is to care, show up, and act. Not once, not twice, but a little bit every day for the rest of our lives. Accept this invitation and join a global movement for extraordinary good. Impossible alone. Transformational together.

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A Billion Hours of Good: Changing the World 14 Minutes at a Time

Real and Lasting change comes more often in tablespoons than in buckets. A billion hours is equivalent to 114,000 years. That's how much good we're going to do together. Just 14 minutes at a time. You don't need more money or time or even another election cycle to bring transformational change to your community. What you need is to believe that daily microdoses of good over years and years can create a great return. Stop waiting for the big change moment and seize the good that you can do today. Join Chris in pledging 1 percent of your time (14 minutes a day) to make the world a better place. Learn how to solve old problems in new ways, and walk with Chris as he shows you how he started Mercy Project-a nonprofit committed to ending child trafficking in Ghana. See how compassion and care can serve as rocket fuel for deep courage and untapped creativity. Our responsibility in a world filled with suffering is to care, show up, and act. Not once, not twice, but a little bit every day for the rest of our lives. Accept this invitation and join a global movement for extraordinary good. Impossible alone. Transformational together.

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A Billion Hours of Good: Changing the World 14 Minutes at a Time

A Billion Hours of Good: Changing the World 14 Minutes at a Time

by Chris Field
A Billion Hours of Good: Changing the World 14 Minutes at a Time

A Billion Hours of Good: Changing the World 14 Minutes at a Time

by Chris Field

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Overview

Real and Lasting change comes more often in tablespoons than in buckets. A billion hours is equivalent to 114,000 years. That's how much good we're going to do together. Just 14 minutes at a time. You don't need more money or time or even another election cycle to bring transformational change to your community. What you need is to believe that daily microdoses of good over years and years can create a great return. Stop waiting for the big change moment and seize the good that you can do today. Join Chris in pledging 1 percent of your time (14 minutes a day) to make the world a better place. Learn how to solve old problems in new ways, and walk with Chris as he shows you how he started Mercy Project-a nonprofit committed to ending child trafficking in Ghana. See how compassion and care can serve as rocket fuel for deep courage and untapped creativity. Our responsibility in a world filled with suffering is to care, show up, and act. Not once, not twice, but a little bit every day for the rest of our lives. Accept this invitation and join a global movement for extraordinary good. Impossible alone. Transformational together.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684263110
Publisher: ACU Press/Leafwood Publishers
Publication date: 06/08/2021
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Chris Field is an award-winning author, speaker, modern-day abolitionist, nonprofit innovator, business consultant, college lecturer, Guinness world record holder, viral sensation, twenty-five-time marathoner, and ice cream lover. But his greatest superpower is inspiring people to believe they can actually change the world and then showing them how to join him in doing so. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Stacey, and is a father to Micah, Beckett, Lincoln, and Theodore.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Chapter 1 A Case Study Named Connor 13

Chapter 2 A Gift for You 19

Chapter 3 Changing the World 14 Minutes at a Time 24

Part I Compassion and Courage

Chapter 4 Splagchnizomai 31

Chapter 5 Developing Love for Our Neighbors 40

Chapter 6 Words Create Worlds 49

Chapter 7 The "Other" 57

Chapter 8 Turning Walls into Tables 65

Chapter 9 Gabe and the Domino Effect of Good 74

Chapter 10 Our North Star 83

Chapter 11 It Starts with Showing Up 92

Chapter 12 Fur Elise and Hospital Chaplaincy 101

Chapter 13 Failing (and Getting Back Up Again) 110

Chapter 14 Slippery Watermelons 121

Chapter 15 I'm Sorry" 131

Part II Creativity and Change

Chapter 16 Creativity Is for Everyone 141

Chapter 17 Creativity as Currency 145

Chapter 18 Cardboard Boxes 154

Chapter 19 From Ideation to Execution 165

Chapter 20 Getting People to Join Your Big Idea 176

Chapter 21 Amplification 188

Chapter 22 Inspiration 193

Chapter 23 Turning Your Compassion, Courage, and Creativity into Good 199

Join the Movement 205

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