By just staying at home, you help your
neighbor, your family, the medical staff, and even the country in preventing the virus to spread more.
You might be wondering what other things you can do to help people out there while
staying at home. You are helping yourself and other people now But, here are some other things you
can do to help more people by not going anywhere else.
7 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP FROM HOME
1. Use Yahoo! JAPAN
Currently Yahoo! JAPAN is holding a campaign
where they will donate 1 yen for every search you input using the keyword のりこえよう from May 1 to May 6. The donation goes to
medical field support. You can participate by simply typing のりこえよう and click
search so that a page like this will appear as
a thank you for participating. You can join the campaign by this link.
2. Browse using Ecosia
As I mentioned before, you can help the
environment by using Ecosia for planting trees around the world. This search
engine will report how many trees you can plant by showing the numbers on the
top right of its interface. Ecosia can be a great search engine alternative to
your usual search engine if you want to plant trees while doing what you love
to do at home.
3. Choose online shopping
With the current situation, online shopping is
highly recommended since it decreases the physical contact among people. The most
important thing to remember when you do online shopping is buying only the
things you need. When you are not sure whether or not you need certain stuff,
you can leave them in your shopping cart for 3 days, then you can decide.
4. Buy products that join 1% for the planet
You can participate to donate to certain cases
by buying products from some sellers / brands that donate their profits and/or
join the 1% for the planet (they will donate 1% of their profit for this
website to help the world). One skincare brand that I really love, Krave Beauty
announced that they are now member of 1% for the planet, so you can take care your skin while helping the environment too.
5. Don’t share anything unless it’s official
If you can do something to physically help
other people out there, you can help by not sharing anything unless it’s
official ones. In this kind of situation, we can easily be overwhelmed with
many articles or contents that share new and weird things in order to gain
views number. Don’t buy into that. You are smart enough to differ which one is
credible. Personally, I only subscribe to WHO newsletter for the daily reports,
even though I don’t usually read it every day. It’s so much simple than reading
random group chats full of speculations
and hoax. So that you get the right information and you can save more time to
do other things.
6. Consume and share good contents
You can support other content creators by
sharing their contents too. Consuming good contents benefits you, you have good
energy and mindset so that you see life positively and impact others by creating positive circumstances around
you. Sharing good contents not only help the author to promote their works, but also help other people in your social media
circles to have better insights too. You can help many people including
yourself by simply sharing one good content whether it’s blog post, music, podcast
or youtube video.
7. Pay your bills and be grateful
For some people, it’s hard for even paying
bills monthly, especially when they have no jobs due to the virus. For you, who
are able to pay your bills, pay it regularly and gratefully. Feel the gratitude
for the money you have and the service you’ve been enjoying. Gratitude will
bring more blessing into your life. It doesn’t literally give you some sudden money after
paying your bills, even though there is a possibility for it. Blessings can be anything. The amount of money you have is one kind of blessings too.
Yeah! So it’s supposed to be a weekly message
for Sunday, but I forgot it (I slept the whole day after laundrying and doing
other stuff), haha, so I wrote this blog post today without really knowing what I want to share, I think it's the shortest post I made this year. I hope this short yet cool blog post can inspire you to act wisely while
staying at home. Please remember that your existence gives meaning to the
world. Everything you do gives impact whether it’s good or bad. So, be mindful
of your doings. If you have some ideas to help more people while staying home,
you can leave it in the comment box below. Sending you so much love, see you on the next post. Keep living, keep loving, and peace!
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