One week from today will begin the most important journey in many people’s lives; people who are going to make One Million Acts Of Kindness their personal, lifetime goal. If you had a chance in your life, to make as many people become the best persons they could possibly be, would you do it? If it took just a couple of hours to tell all your family and friends about a lifetime goal that could have a profound impact on their lives, could you please do it? The impact of everyone having a lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness is a game-changer. This world could use it now more than ever. Incorporate a One Million Acts Of Kindness goal for your own life and family’s life as an example for the rest of the world to see.
Please send the following email to as many people as you can, instructing them to send it to everyone they know around the world.

One Million Acts Of Kindness Week is February 14-20, 2011.Kindness begins with children. A lifetime goal of kindness will helpstudents put an end to bullying others. We are working to spread the word about this mission across the United States, with the hope that it grows globally. We are hoping to have people from every country in the world participate in this 2^nd annual event. Please help us by sending this information to everyone you know, throughout your state, across our country and around our world. I hope that kindness spreads throughout our country and then to the rest of the world. Everyone across the country can play a key role in making this happen. Please visit our website, to research the kindness goals we are working to spread on campuses nationwide and to register the kind act you will do for another, during One Million Acts Of Kindness Week.  Students are also urged to print from the homepage of our website, one of the Kindness Certificates with their name, as a reminder that they have taken a lifetime pledge. More then ten thousand Kindness Certificates have been printed from our website. The Kindness Certificate is a powerful teaching tool for educators. Every student across the country should  learn the benefits of having a constant mindset of kindness.

We hope, because of you, that kindness spreads across the world. www.onemillionactsofkindness.com

For the sake of children everywhere, please help with spreading this message of kindness. I am hoping every student in the United States will take the Kindness Challenge and hang a Kindness Certificate on their bedroom wall.

Thank you,

Bob Votruba

thekindnessbustour@gmail.com

1 (216) 870-7772

In-classroom programs like One Million Acts Of Kindness are having an immediate impact on students in the schools I visit. Educators voice their approval at any new idea which can make their classrooms safer and One Million Acts Of Kindness is no exception. From K-12, having a daily, year-long kindness program can keep students focused on learning while working towards short term and long term kindness goals. A constant mind-set of kindness at the earliest of age is imperative to combat the explosive nature of one student or a group of students bullying another.
I have heard from hundreds of you about being able to view the puppet show, “The Power of One.”. It will be posted in video form on my website and Youtube for educators to use as a teaching tool in the coming weeks.
The message of One Million Acts Of Kindness is starting to have a reach around the globe, with dozens of countries represented by some of their citizens taking part in One Million Acts Of Kindness Week. My email/calling about “Bullying be Gone” to PTAs on the state level is having great success. Please pass the word of a lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness to anyone and everyone you know. Thank you, Bob Votruba

The Kindness Bus doesn’t have a satellite dish for television reception, or a radio for that matter and that is a good thing. 24/7 news seems to have become part of our culture. Internet news,  television and radio are everywhere we look. It is almost as if we are hearing too much news in our lives; we are becoming a country of 2 very different opinions on almost every issue. Everyone should express their opinion when they feel passionately about an issue, but still have respect for someone with the opposite viewpoint. There seems to be no middle ground or dialogue discussed much anymore. Our nation is becoming further divided at a time when the world is in turmoil, just when we should be growing closer, growing stronger, growing kinder.
Lead only with a kind mind from this point forward in your life. If we are to become a closer, stronger, kinder people, it depends on each and every one of us, individually. Start with yourself and spread by example this important message of kindness to everyone you possibly can.

What a fun middle of the winter event to get us thinking about spring. What an even more fun movie about a weatherman who wakes to the same day, Groundhog’s Day, dozens of days in a row. Everything that happens during the day keeps being relived by Bill Murray, until he realizes what it takes to move on to a fresh start of a new day.
With a lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness, every day is the same, excitedly the same. New horizons and new opportunities to look for acts of kindness to perform. Long term goals to plan for while you work on a cause about which you are truly passionate.
On this Groundhog’s Day, take a few moments to sign up for One Million Acts Of Kindness Week and truly move on to a fresh start of a new day.  Bogart did not see his shadow today. He barely wanted to come out from beneath his covers.

While putting the finishing touches on the first Bogart children’s book in a local coffee shop, I took the liberty to approach a young mother with her small child. The perfect demographic to “test market” the book, “Bogart Begins His Kindness Adventure.” As luck would have it, this caring mom had been a primary school teacher previous to motherhood; a double demographic delight. Not only did she, and her friend, who now joined her, love the book; they were generous with their compliments about the mission of One Million Acts Of Kindness and its positive effect on the future of their young children’s lives.
Spreading the word about my mission, one or two people at a time, is a personal effort that can have a powerful impact. Direct contact with someone and having a passion for what I do is how the groundswell of this grass-roots effort is beginning to take hold in people’s lives. I was so touched by the loving care these two women showed their children. The values of One Million Acts Of Kindness was something these women have embraced long ago, in talking with them I realized I was preaching to the choir.
Please take the time to register for One Million Acts Of Kindness Week and register your group’s or your personal kindness act.