Organize a family meal and appreciate being together.Teach an elderly person to use a computer to surf the Internet or write e-mails.
Think of something you do well, and use your talent to benefit others – for example performing magic tricks at a children’s hospital or playing music at a nursing home. Find unneeded items in your house and donate them to a charitable organization. Write a thank-you note to someone who won’t expect it. Doer of gooddeed speach driver#
Allow a fellow driver to merge into your lane. Buy a gift for your mother or grandmother – just because. Save electricity by unplugging your devices when not in use. Volunteer for an hour at an organization of your choice. Let your first check of the year be to charity. Check out this list of 52 ideas to help you do good all year round and make a positive change in the world. No matter how big or small, good deeds carry a double punch – we make a positive impact and we feel great at the same time. Honoring that happy ripple effect in 108 different countries is Good Deeds Day– a yearly celebration of doing good around the world. Nelson Mandela gave a copy of the speech to the captain of the South African Rugby team prior to the 1995 World Cup.We all want to do good! Whether it’s for ourselves or our loved ones, the planet, or society at large. It inspired Lindsey Stirling’s song “The Arena”, and was paraphrased by Brene Brown in her TEDx talk. Richard Nixon, in fact, quotes the speech in both his victory speech (delivered November 6, 1968) and in his resignation speech (given August 8, 1974). Since its delivery, components of “The Man in the Arena” speech have been used by politicians, pop stars, and everything in between. We would do well to remember these words today The worthy cause then, is one that is not focused on the individual, but on the whole. In other words, what you do for the community matters more than individual improvement. It speaks ill for the community if the community worships these qualities and treats their possessors as heroes regardless of whether the qualities are used rightly or wrongly.” “ Courage, intellect, all the masterful qualities, serve but to make a man more evil if they are merely used for that man’s own advancement, with brutal indifference to the rights of others. Roosevelt turns to the idea of individual citizenship, however as the speech progresses it becomes clear that the motivation for action matters. In the speech, Roosevelt addresses America’s status as a still young country, the New World. And, it is only a small excerpt from a much larger piece. The speech was clearly a synthesis of Theodore Roosevelt’s philosophy toward life. 
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” “ It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Roosevelt had a keen awareness of what was occurring in the world, politically. The speech itself covered many ideas and comments on both the New World (America) and the Old World (Europe). Roosevelt was en route back to the United States after a year-long expedition he’d taken on behalf of the Smithsonian Museum. The speech was titled “Citizenship in a Republic” and was 35 pages long. What is today referred to by many as “The Man in the Arena” speech was delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910. Theodore Roosevelt left Presidential office in 1909 and in the year that followed, he traveled extensively and spoke to various audiences. Although it was delivered more than 100 years ago, it continues to have lasting impact today. Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena" speech is one such speech. Sometimes excerpts even make their way out of history books and into pop culture.
When a speech is well-written and resonates with its audience, it may become a staple in historical collective memory.
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