Keith Video: Can Volunteering Help Cure Heart Disease?

Posted on November 22nd, 2011 by Keith Ferrazzi

In honor of Thanksgiving this week, today's video post is about how volunteering can improve your physical, as well as mental, health.

The holidays are a great time to find ways to give back -- but so is the rest of the year!

Do you give back? If so, how? Has it improved your health?

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  1. Thank you, "Give and You shall receive." is the indisputable message.

  2. Excellent video Keith. Thank you so much for sharing and encouraging more people to volunteer in their community for a really good reason; health and wellness.

    Doing pro bono work at Empowering Today's Professionals (ETP) since 2004, keeps me energized and more mentally positive. Knowing I'm doing good helping members land jobs in a tough economic climate, helps me have better relationships in my core business with social media consulting clients. I find volunteering also helps with expanding new skills, improving interpersonal relationship building. This produces more confidence for personal growth.

    Carl E. Reid, CSI
    Savvy Intrapreneur

  3. Great video blog, Keith. I do volunteer and am involved in charitable work in my spare time. I think it does give us a better well being. When I haven't done it in a while, I miss it like I miss running when I haven't run for a couple days.

    Mike

  4. John Connell says:
    December 2, 2011 at 6:48 am
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    Another great video Keith!
    My company actually has days where we get out of the office and give back to the community by "volunteering" (its not really volunteering as we are getting paid for this) and it is a huge moarle booster becasue people feel graet when they reach out and help those who are less fortunate. Truly a win-win situation. This activity has inspired me to go out and volunteer on my own which I think the message the compnay was instilling in us. There is not much of a better feeling than seeing the gratefulness on a person's face and in their voice. It is a very humbling experience as well as richly rewarding personally.
    Cheers!
    John

  5. Keith-

    Thanks for the video.

    When I went through a period of unemployment I taught a class at my local unemplyment center. Am an IT guy, so the classes I taught were around basic computer and computer network skills.

    Can't tell you how much I benefited from the experience, both in terms of learning new skills (both hard and soft skills) but also how much it really re-lit my enthusiasm for what I do for a living.

    Still, now that I am back to being employed, teach the classes.

  6. Thank you for the video. I was a volunteer with a sexual assault crisis agency before I lost my job and it gave me life balance. Having been unemployed for way too long, I now take the available time and have amped up my volunteer commitment considerably. Working with sexual assault survivors has taken me out of my self pity mode 99% percent of the time. My values and priorities have changed and as a result my stress level has dropped to a more manageable level. My depression has decreased and my sense of self worth increased. I am out of the house and moving! Blood pressure down and hopefully my butt will decrease as well. Ok , no miracles there but I remain positive. I am committed to always volunteering in good times as wells as the rough times.

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