What if 2015 is your best year yet?
Nourish your body to its potential. Expand your mind to capacity. Create the world you want. It begins with you.
In the year 2015, Tri For Charity is dedicated to promoting the importance of personal well-being, the fight against misinformation, and the ways we can use these two improved matters to move forward and become better, more dynamic people of the world. Come join us and help change the world for the better. What if 2015 is your best year yet?
Tri For Charity’s 2015 Resolutions
Here at Tri For Charity we know how important there is to set up goals to make best possible impact. This is how we will do it in year 2015.
1. Focus on vitality.
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”- Jim Rohn
Currently, about 1 in 8 people on the planet are suffering from chronic undernourishment according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. This translates to nearly 870 million people without proper food and water — 852 million of whom live in developing countries. Life proves to be tumultuous for these people, as their bodies break down in the wake of not having enough nourishment, and takes over 3 million lives of children each year.
These figures are nothing new. To most people, this information comes across as some tired group of statistics, played out over and over on morning shows across the nation and international broadcasts around the world. It’s old news. It’s lost its luster, and it’s just a part of life. But what’s shocking is that there is another health issue that, paradoxically, affects more people than those suffering nutritional deficiency: the sweeping number of overweight people in the world.
Globally physical inactivity and its ramifications on the human body are the cause of 5.3 million deaths per year — a sobering thought when placed next to the number of deaths caused by smoking on a yearly basis, which affects 5 million people. A 2012 study published by The Lancet, concluded that inactivity-related diseases and illnesses accounted for 1 in ten deaths across the globe. We are fatter, sicker, and more in denial than ever.
Here at Tri For Charity, we recognize these issues and want to do something to change them. We want to provide the inspiration to sculpt new athletes out of those who are currently sedentary. We want to help prevent unnecessary illness and fatality in our world and supply motivation to those who are already committed to leading a healthy lifestyle.
That is why one of our resolutions for the year 2015 is to shine a spotlight on personal health: its importance in society both big and small, as well as ways you can implement healthier habits into your daily life. Together, we can fight this decline of physical wellness at home as well as the problems surrounding the water supply of developing nations. We believe this resolution will create a win-win situation that will help save more lives.
2. Get the Facts
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”-Nelson Mandela
Studying at university after high school has become the norm in our society. This transition from high school to higher education is seen as the gateway to success, as the grand majority of careers require at least a bachelor’s degree to be even considered for a position.
Higher education is admirable, it’s commendable, and it’s necessary in a lot of occupational settings. To devote your time and energy to a subject about which you feel passionate is an incredibly honorable and illustrious endeavor that will no doubt bring success in some way in the future.
But what about the things you can’t learn from keeping your nose hidden in a book? What about the lessons taught outside of some windowless, unfeeling lecture hall? Like the water crisis.
Over 700 millions people still live without safe drinkable water.
One of the main reasons that the average person doesn’t get involved with a charity or cause isn’t that they are unfeeling. It isn’t that they don’t care. More often than not, the regular person who gets up every day, goes to work, and provides for their family is inactive in the fight against a crippling worldwide problem because of three little, insidious words;
“I didn’t know.”
There’s a significant lack of correct information in our society. Worldwide issues are swept under the rug, facts are muddled, and oftentimes, people just don’t know where to look to find the correct answers to the questions they want to ask. It isn’t that we live in a world of blatantly malevolent people who lack the empathy to help solve global problems — quite the opposite! Usually, the general public is misinformed about a particular topic, or totally unaware that a crisis is occurring somewhere just out of reach.
This is another area we want to focus on here at Tri For Charity in the year 2015: we want to help spread the most accurate, hard-hitting information we can. We want to command the attention of people who are unfamiliar with the water crisis as well as its global and social impact. We want to change minds. We want to empower people to make a difference by using their physical ability and their knowledge.
3. Shine & Light
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”-Anne Frank
This is our best resolution beacuse we at Tri For Charity breathe charity and understand the importance to give. We use our passion for triathlon to make global change and in 2015 we support charity: water and their projects at the same time we implement our water filter projects.
On a given day in any major city worldwide, you’re liable to be accosted by a canvasser or two on a busy street. You see them far ahead — flocked in a vest bearing their charity’s logo on the backside and clutching a clipboard, ready to bother you and take your money. Instantly, you cringe a bit as you stride toward them, wishing for a way out of their radius of harassment, and practice making deep eye contact with the ground. You may pull out your cell phone for a decoy distraction. You may simply walk past them, ignoring their polite greetings and the humble beginnings of a fundraising pitch.
These street canvassers — these ruiners of peaceful walks and creators of guilt hurricanes string beneath our skin — are the necessary product of an “out of sight, out of mind” issue regarding charity in our world: the fact that people are generally less apt to donate to charities and causes that don’t explicitly affect them. It’s easier for us, as humans with our own issues in our own lives, to turn the other cheek in the face of global issues simply because we can’t see them. Going hand-in-hand with the swirl of misinformation in society, charity and volunteering falls by the wayside in the minds of the people in developed nations because we don’t see the issues firsthand.
And yet, this doesn’t diminish the severity of the issues that others face in remote, less fortunate parts of our world.
So after focusing on personal wellness and making education a priority, the final piece of the way that Tri For Charity resolves to be better in 2015 is to continue to focus relentlessly on philanthropy. We are a charitable organization at our core, but this year, we want to stretch beyond the clean water crisis. We want to do more to help make this world a better place.
In summary, our focus is to create a community of people who are committed to changing the world in a positive way through action instead of words. Blanket statements and wishful thinking can only get us so far, but when you physically make an effort to brighten the world, that’s when live begin to improve.
Change is a verb, not a noun.
Story by : Sarah Pierce
We are a swedish fundraising foundation making global change trough our passion for triathlon. In 2014/15 we is part of solving the water crisis.
