Sites of Encouragement & Betterment

I am compiling a list of sites that I feel have kind of a pay-it-forward type of feel or where people encourage others, by example, to follow a dream, improve themselves, etc.  Right now, the criteria is that it has to be free.

I will try to post links to the original (is anything ever original?) site when I can find it, and I will give mention to who introduced me to the concept I discovered the concept.

If you know of one, shoot me an email and I'll check it out.

Skull-a-Day 
Encourages people to create something daily.  This is where I got inspiration for my mosaic/whale a day project. Noah Scalin also published a journal about it too.

DayZero Project (aka 101 things in 1001 Days)
I found out about this idea through Chrissy Scivicque. I was searching for ways to quiet that negative talk in your head and came across a post she wrote on the dumblittleman website, and that led me to her 101 list.  Now I am doing it. One of her goals was to encourage 10 people to make a list.

Want to get rid of the negative thoughts in your head?
Read this!  I did it and it was awesome.

Sparkspeople.com
This is a healthy spot.  My bestie Jaime turned me onto this site when she was trying to get all us gals moving on the healthy train.  It has a social network type of activity where people tell their stories, post their progress and encourage others.  But you don't have to do that.  You can just get in track your nutrition, fitness and weight and get out if you want.  Lots of great tools.


MyFitnessPal.com 
My trainer Leo actually recommended this site.  It works much like SparksPeople and has a couple additional tools, like showing net calories I believe, but all my food combinations are on SparksPeople already so It's tough for me to make the changeover.  I do like the interface on the phone--a little easier and cleaner than sparkspeople. My daughter, Marisa,uses MyFitnessPal on her iPhone.


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