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Robert F. Kennedy once said, “You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution”.<\/p>\n

Meet Judith O’Reilly.\u00a0 She decided to approach the yearly New Year’s resolution in a different way.\u00a0 She didn’t make a resolution to stop smoking, lose weight, exercise more, or get a new job.\u00a0 Instead she decided to do one good deed every day!\u00a0 Whaaaaaaaat? \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I was sober when I made the resolution,\u201d O’Reilly laughs.<\/p>\n

365 good deeds is impressive!\u00a0 She credits her idea to watching her parents doing good deeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents are saints, and it is tough being the child of a saint,\u201d she states.<\/p>\n

Her parents both delivered food to the poor.\u00a0 Judith’s mother worked in hospice care and also helped in inner-city schools, while her father visited the sick in hospitals and drove elderly to church.<\/p>\n

During her “year of good”, Judith sent books to friends in need, donated to charity, and helped people get jobs – just to name a few \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 She writes about all of her experiences in her book, “A Year of Doing Good<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

The year gave her quite a few surprises.<\/p>\n

“I had always thought that people who did good did it because they were such good people. I thought they felt an obligation, quite often because there was some belief in God.” Judith says. \u201cBut as the year went on, I thought, \u2018Actually I feel really good.\u2019 Even the migraines that I\u2019m prone to seemed to ease up… I was aware of a buzz from doing good, and when I explored this, I thought, \u2018Oh, there you go, there is actually a chemical hit going on… there\u2019s a message there that there\u2019s something in it for you if you do good.\u201d<\/p>\n

There you have it!\u00a0 Doing good also makes you feel good \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Well done Judith O’Reilly – keep up the good deeds \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Peace & Love,<\/p>\n

Jon<\/p>\n

– The Good World News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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