BETTSIE WILD, Founder of the No Child Goes Hungry “Dare to Care” nonprofit program

BETTSIE WILD, Special Founder of No Child Goes Hungry “Dare to Care” nonprofit program. Interviewed by Deb Dachinger on "Dare to Dream" Radio. Listen Now at: http://www.youpublish.com/files/33337

Bettsie noticed her little girl Lena was coming home from school hungry. How could she be hungry when Lena left with food every day? Somehow Lena wasn’t eating. It was discovered that Lena was giving her food to friends who came to school each day with no lunch pail and no money for lunch. They were coming to school with nothing for the entire day, and Lena was giving her pal food, sharing with her so her companion would have something to eat also. The school forbad Lena from doing for fear of legal repercussions. Mom, Bettsie, went to Lena’s school to see for herself and indeed the school stepped in to stop Lena’s share-feeding of the hungry child. Bettsie tried another tactic; she gave the cafeteria money to pay for any hungry children in the school, however her money was turned away as there was no way to appropriate the funds. Out of frustration and complete bewilderment that 14 million children in the United States are going hungry daily and 17,000 die from malnutrition complications each year. Mom, Bettsie, and daughter Lena started the No Child Goes Hungry 501c3 nonprofit foundation. It began in Alaska, has come to California, is being looked at by 7 states, and the foundation’s goal is to be nationwide. A $100 donation to the foundation pays for a child’s lunch for one month. Dare to Care, Inc. Executive Director, Bettsie, is a family mediator who specializes in co-parenting mediations, helping the parents focus on the children, while navigating through the divorce process. Bettsie is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children and a trained Child Custody Investigator. She is a trained facilitator for both "Children in the Middle" and "After the Storm" programs that provide support and skills for co-parenting and to children living the reality of divorce. Bettsie focuses her practice on helping to remember the kids and finding an outcome everyone can live with. At work and at home, Bettsie’s life is focused on children. She has four children of her own, ages 24, 18, 11 & 8. Her youngest daughter, Lena, inspired Bettsie to found the charity, Dare to Care, which feeds children-in-need in community schools. The program started five years ago when Lena, then a first grader, had a friend who was coming to school every day hungry, and without food or money to purchase a hot lunch. In approaching the school regarding the little girl’s dilemma, the Wild’s learned there were many children who for different reasons, who were going hungry every day and needed help. These are children who fall through the cracks and do not receive benefit of the federal free and reduced meal program. Many are abused and neglected. That year, the Wild family fed 35 children in two neighborhood schools – and has grown to become an official 501(c)(3) and is feeding over 2,000 children. It is their dream to have the program go nation-wide, and help feed the over 14 million hungry children in the US who need benefit of such a program. Bettsie and her daughter Lena are in California raising awareness and putting the program into our schools to jump start the program going national. Through Dare to Care, Bettsie puts on school assemblies talking to students about kindness and tolerance – and the importance in not judging others because they are different. www.NoChildGoesHungry.org; www.daretocare-alaska.com/aboutus/wild.html
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What Dreams Ultimately Do: Smolder Inside Us Until We Take Action to Make Our Dream our Reality

What Dreams Ultimately Do: Smolder Inside Us Until We Take Action to Make Our Dream our Reality

Viola Davis, the fabulous award-winning actress spoke about achieving dreams. She said:
“That’s what dreams ultimately do: drive us to want and need something better.”

The Harlem Village Academies is a network of charter public schools in Harlem that are nationally recognized for academic excellence.  It’s based on 1 core idea:

Belief in the power of teachers. The teachers are coached weekly on how to make lessons more challenging and interesting for the kids with the freedom to run their classrooms. That produces passion and dedication, and in the end the Academies held their teachers accountable for results.

Deborah Kenny, CEO of the Harlem Village Academy says “There is not equality in America, and I think about it constantly.  We have 14 million children living in poverty, and there is a complete disparity between the education they receive and that of a child in a high socioeconomic bracket.  But we’ve learned many lessons over the years and are now figuring out how to share that knowledge with educators around the country. That’s a critical first step to solving the education problem nationally.”

It’s so important that we teach our children that they are wise and capable. That we take the time to support their goals and dreams and let them know if they choose to pursue a dream and will take the necessary action steps to achieve it, they can make their dreams come true. Often times the outcome is beyond their wildest dreams.

You’ve heard of Abby Sunderland, the 16 year old Southern California girl who set out to go 25,000 miles and circle the globe alone in a sailboat. She was lost at sea for a period of time in an almost fateful journey, and thankfully returned home safely.

Jean Pierre Arabonis, A South African Oceanographer and meteorologist whose company OSIS advises the shipping industry on navigating safe passage around dangerous weather, said he admired Sunderland’s effort. He described the place where she’d run into trouble as “one of the nastiest pieces of ocean you can encounter,” with reported wind speeds as high as 115 MPH. Arabonis commends Sunderland on having sailed 12,000 miles before running afoul of the weather, and added that in his opinion, there was nothing she could have done to avoid having her boat’s mast cracked by a rogue wave. The vessel experienced a mechanical failure; it had nothing to do with her age.

When reporters asked her father, Laurence, about her journey and the ocean, he said:

“What do I think of the ocean? The ocean scares me and that’s a healthy sort of fear.” Laurence added that the rewards of Abby’s sailing expedition trumped the risks.  “Frankly life is unsafe,” he said, “Life has a 100 percent mortality rate. We’re all going to die, you know? I think the saddest things about living, is getting to a ripe old age and never having fulfilled a dream in your life.”

In the year 2010 alone:

·       a 13 year old American boy summated Mount Everest,

·       a 15-year old skied to the North Pole,

·       a 16-year old British boy completed the Marathon des Sables, a grueling 151-mile race across the Sahara,

·       and Jessica Watson sailed triumphantly into Sydney Harbor after 7-months alone at sea.

An old Iranian proverb goes:  Fire is smoldering beneath the ashes.

What fire is smoldering within you? Are you ready to take steps to start fulfilling your dream?

 

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Empower Yourself. Make Those Dreams Your Reality.

Fear vs. Courage

As actor Glen Ford once said, “If you do not the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.”

When you confront your fears and move toward what you are afraid of, your fears diminish while at the same time, your self-esteem and self-confidence increases.

The most important kind of courage is the courage to begin, to launch, to step out in faith. This is the courage to try something new or different, to move out of your comfort zone, with no guarantee of success.

With a commitment to acquire the habit of courage you will eventually reach the point where your fears no longer play a major role in your decision making.

You need to have self-discipline to respond positively and constructively in the face of discovery.


Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 wrote: “Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.”

You need self-discipline to keep your thoughts on your goals and dreams and keep them –off – of your doubts and fears.


Successful people are those who visualize the kind of success they want in advance. Prior to a new experience the successful person visualizes a successful positive event. The subconscious is like a computer so be sure to input great information, positive pictures and make choices so your subconscious computer output is positive to reflect a great life experience.


You are What You Can Be.


Ambrose Redmoon said: “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. “


Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist

Dare to dream - and make those dreams into your reality!
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Empower Yourself

EM•POW•ER: To give power or authority to; authorize



Empowerment is a process that challenges our assumptions about the way things are and can be. It challenges our basic assumptions about power, helping, achieving, and succeeding.

Lao Tzu said: “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

“Fear is excitement without the breath.” So take a breath, and then take the next step…then before you know it, you will have created your masterpiece; your dream comes true.


Here are three D's to remember which consist of:-

Desire and

Determination to realize

Dreams

Alice Walker wrote: “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE:
To empower myself means that I step into my own magnificence and brilliance. That I let my inner light shine in a large way. That I am myself, authentically, with love for all and no worry for how another perceives me and no need to compare, only to be exactly who I am, in pure acceptance and embodiment of me, my soul in this life. It means that I embrace my gifts. I don’t hide them. I don’t pretend that I am not all that I am. I don’t take my strengths and downplay them. Instead I say “Yes I am all that and more,” in my heart in a quiet way. Knowing that I was gifted with purpose and a willingness to live that purpose. Empowering myself means that I Play A Bigger Game. I may feel unsure, a bit uncomfortable and challenged each time I step into a larger playing field of life; however I continue to step into a grander version of myself, knowing that all is well, and allowing myself to become a tool for a higher purpose.

Personal empowerment allows us all to follow the dreams that are not within our means now (but will be!).

Imagine your life as you want it – as though it were happening now. Cut out pictures (from magazines and other sources) to make your vision stronger and a reality. Practice positive mental rehearsal before every important event. Continually feed your mind with great people, thoughts and pictures.

Edith Armstrong said “I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fears try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal-and soon they’ll forget my number.”


Dare to Dream! And dare to make those dreams your reality. Remember -- Don’t try so hard to fit it when you were born to stand out.

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Goals and Dream - Begin with Choice. Manifest Yours Today! :-)

CHOICE - You Have Choice in Your Life and In Your Dreams and Goals

Choice

From the dictionary:
CHOICE: consists of the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them. Often a choice is made between options, and followed by the corresponding action. 

Can You Follow Road Signs?

If so then you can choose a Dream/a Goal and follow the Signs (action steps) to get there.  

And what happens if you need to go somewhere and there are no directions and no road signs?

How long will it take you to find a building in a new city without a road map and without road signs? You probably will never find it, or it will take a very long time and if you ever did find the building, it will be a matter of luck.

To achieve a dream– first you must chose the dream and then to make it a reality in your life, decide upon action steps – these are your roadmap with directions to get you to your destination.

-Swami Prem-oh-da-ya (Premodaya) said:  “We are actors in a play who have forgotten they are in a play.”  

You have determined your entire life up to now by the choices and decisions you have made, or failed to make. If there is anything in your life that you don’t like, you are responsible. If there is anything that you’re unhappy about, it’s up to you to take the necessary steps to change and improve it so that it’s more to your liking.

As the President of your career and your own life, as the architect of your destiny, you’re free to make your own decisions. You are the boss. You are in charge.

In the Bible it says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

Imagine that you have all the time, talents and abilities you require to achieve any goal you set for yourself.  Imagine you have all the friends, contacts and relationships you need to open every door and achieve anything you really want.

Imagine that you have no limitations whatsoever on what you can be, have or do.

Nirmala said “It turns out that the source of everything is also who you are. Since the source of everything doesn't come and go, it must be here right now, in this very moment.”

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New Ideas to Creating Your Dream Come True - How to Make Your Own Luck

In a book by Melody Beattie, she was taking sky diving lessons (passionate about it) but was very afraid to jump her first time. Her friend asked her “do you believe in God?” She answered “Yes.” Her friend said “Then jump.”

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Laura Berman Fortgang wrote:  “If everything were linear and predictable, we’d come to a halt. There would be no creativity or evolution or growth.  To live is to weave constantly between the known and the unknown.”

It’s understandable that we want order, predictability, and answers to all of our questions. If we have these things, we feel more comfortable. Yet tremendous fullness, aliveness and a different kind of comfort come when we learn to tolerate the randomness of life.”
Nothing is neat and tidy. Never has been and never will be.”

So -- Can we Create Our Own Luck?

Psychic Intuitive Anne Jirsch:
Spent 10 years of scientific research which revealed a new way of looking at luck and the role it plays in our lives. It demonstrates that much of the good and bad fortune we encounter is a result of our thoughts and behavior.  She suggests we follow these 4 tips for becoming lucky:

1)   Listen to your gut instincts – they are normally right.

2)   Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine.

3)   Spend a few minutes each day remembering things that went well.

4)   Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.

** Luck is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

By thinking that they were more lucky, people expected to be luckier and that expectation had an energy which created their luck. The chain reaction is known as the Law of Attraction: what we focus on occurs.

Dale Carengie believed and that to get on in life think positively. He suggested when we see the good in people; suddenly everyone will be on your side and help you achieve your goals.

Graham James, master magician once said: “All magic is finding the right tools to aid your own focus.”

“The Art of Navigation” by Felix Wolf

Why wouldn't we want to go online and tap into the infinite intelligence of life itself? We request information and guidance through actions and gestures, and we receive information and guidance by turning our awareness away from our thoughts - towards the entirety of our sense perceptions, 360 degrees, all around, inside and out. The resulting appearance of correlations, hunches, signs, omens, synchronicities, and silent knowledge - the sensations of excitement, flow, peace, and oneness - should offer all the incentive we want.

To navigate life means:

• to live life in the spirit of a treasure hunt
• to consistently feel like being in the right place at the right time
• to feel guided every step of the way
• to be always in the flow
• to generate serendipity on a daily basis
• to find the shortest and fastest way to living your full potential  

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