The Weekly Beacon: Small ways to help the community! (Week 2 / March 22)
Welcome to week two of The Weekly Beacon! For those who might be new to this initiative, The Weekly Beacon is our new tradition where we share simple, small ways you can lend a hand around the community. The heart of 7 Cups has always been the people in it, and you do not need official badges, special training, or hours of free time to make a massive difference in someone else's day. We build this community together through everyday acts of kindness!
🌟 The Recognition Board 🌟
Every day you reply to these weekly threads to let us know you completed one of the tasks, you earn a star. You can earn up to 7 each week for each day. Once you earn 30 stars, you will receive the exclusive "All for one" badge!
Please join me in giving a round of applause to our trailblazers from last week who stepped up to welcome new members, shared guides, and tagged friends to help. Thank you all so much for your community spirit and for getting this initiative off to a strong start!
@SparkyGizmo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@jesusredeemedme2425 ⭐
@YourCaringConfidant ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@AReineRose ⭐⭐
@Ailuraphilelove8tear9 ⭐
@HealingwithMinionn ⭐
💙 This Week’s Asks 💙
If you have a few minutes today, here are some simple ways you can lend a hand this week:
- Check the Newbie Hub for people introducing themselves, and drop into their posts to acknowledge them
- Greet someone in the Welcome thread (click the >> to go to the most recent page)
- Tell a peer they’re doing a great job in the rooms using this recognition form. / Nominate a listener for a Tulip Award
- Give out a resource to someone! Examples: the 7 Cups Basics, the Listener Quick Guide, or a self-help guide
- Leave a kind review or send a thank-you message to a Listener or community member who has positively impacted your journey recently.
If you can do even one of these things, whether just once or for multiple days this week, please reply to this thread and let me know what you did to support our community! It can be anything, not just things off the list!
Don't forget to tag your friends so they can pitch in and earn stars, and you earn a star for tagging too, as that is also a kindness task!! Let's see how many stars we can hand out next week!
Thank you for always looking out for each other. You make this community shine!
@Heather225
@Fossilfellow radiates light, always showing up to welcome people , quietly, regularly and without fuss 🩵
@Amanda84 I wholeheartedly agree with this! 💯
@Amanda84 @YourCaringConfidant
This means a lot me, thank you! 🐾💝🥰 You guy's are amazing too 💖💖
@Amanda84
Yesss, fellow is amazing n warming welcoming newbies 🤗
@Ailuraphilelove8tear9 ❤️❤️❤️
@Heather225
Hi Heather 😊
I welcomed newbies both in chatroom n welcome thread ❤️, reviewed a genuine listener ❤️, spent time on chatroom like depression n anxiety support 😊.
Hug 🤗
@Heather225
Hi H! 😊 ❤️
Many thanks! This rocks! Also, thank you sweet friend for the deposit into the emotional bank account. I sure did need it!!! ❤️
I'm gonna' try and keep on truckin'! Weeeee-weeeeee! 😊
*high fives* 😊 and *hugs* ❤️
@Heather225
@Heather225
Wednes-yay! 🥳
Checked notifications
Responded to pms
Compassion heart bandit for "line everyday journal" area
(nominated strong teammates for well deserved badges, s.p. checks)
*high fives* 😊 and *hugs* ❤️
Today, I was inspired to nominate listeners for badges too. I hope each one of y'all get the badge you so very deserve! I was on a spree that while I was nominating, I got a message saying I could only nominate that listener for the badge once. So apparently, I forgot when I even nominated someone before in the past and tried doing it again. Lol. 😀
Sharing a resource ✔️ and, as always, forums. I love it here.
@Heather225
@Heather225
Mon-yay! 🥳
Checked notifications
Engaged in rooms
Compassion heart bandit for "one line everyday journal'/forums
*high fives* 😊 and *hugs* ❤️
@Heather225
@Heather225
Tues-yay! 🥳
Checked notifications
Engaged in the forum areas
Engaged in rooms and provided resources
(compassion heart bandit for "one line everyday journal"area/forums, responded to pm's)
Not sure of what the rest of the day will bring. Weeeeee-weeee! 😊
*high fives* 😊 and *hugs* ❤️
Following @CaringConfidants lead and transferring Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday onto this thread for week 2.
@SparkyGizmo You're on a roll! Look at you showing up for the community! Big thank you! 🧡💛💙
@YourCaringConfidant
You are most welcome my sweet friend! 😊 ❤️
Thank you for showing up too, just like you do always! 😇❤️
I guess as an aside, many of us do all of this each day. Some times our work is like the wind around here, you can't taste it, touch it, capture it in a bottle or even prove that it exists. But you sure can see it's after effects from time to time. Wind is a powerful force!!!!! 💥
I find H's posts to be quite brilliant 💡 I can only imagine the many meanings to it all. To provide us with new ways to help out around here by showing us the way, providing the links should we not have considered the options prior, didn't know of them.....
The invitation to use those links and build up the "practice effect"/muscle memory to become more comfortable doing so and potentially add them to our "link libraries"......
To engage in community building and relationship building by doing so and interacting together here on their threads.....
To acknowledge one another, to appreciate everyones special and unique contributions....
Making it 30 stars required to achieve a badge is kind of nifty as "21 days builds a habit" hahah hahah 😊....
To maybe even sit in the space of feeling good about ones own contributions. Sometimes we do and do without stopping to consider that perhaps we do quite a bit and that it's okay to take a moment to feel good about ourselves and our contributions. 7 cups wants for us to feel good about ourselves, to have healthy self esteem, for us to know that we are all worthy and that we have the power to do good things and to be highly impactful and in a myriad of ways. If we don't feel good enough about ourselves, it could maybe be a bit more difficult to show appreciation for others and to feel good about their efforts?...
Lots of little things add up to great big things when done collectively, as a team, with the same spirit of intentionality to bring joy, help, support to others...
There is no "I" in team. If you want to go faster, go alone, if you want to go farther, go together.... (H just formed a team, hahha hahaah, fascinating! 😁)
And of course, monumentally that leadership comes from within, no badge required. One of 7 cups core values *we believe in equality*. None is smaller, none is greater, we are all equals here and with the ability to change the day or even lives of others with a bit of kindness.
As for me, I under estimate the power of no one here on this platform!!! 😇
I love music, all genres. Maybe a good theme song for this thread is Kool Moe Dee "I go to work". Feel free to youtube and take a listen. Feel your power, sit in that space of how much you matter and how very effective if it is that you are!
Weeeeeeeeeeee-weeeeeeeee! 😊
*high fives* 😊 *hugs* ❤️ and keep rockin' the house ya'll! 😊 We got this!
@Heather225
Thurs-yay! 🥳
Checked notifications
Replied to forum posts
Compassion heart bandit for "line everyday journal" and forums
(s.p. checks, engaged in the rooms)
Who knows what the rest of the day will bring. I'll peek back in, edit and add more if more gets accomplished. I might try some of the new options from last week and this week that @Heather225 recommended.
Weeeeeeeeeee-weeeeeeeeee! 😊
*high fives* 😊 and *hugs* ❤️
I nominated listeners.
For today as usual i shared the member best practice guide ☺️. It's so useful in my peer supporter role
