Day 15: "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve."

January 24: Twenty days left!

I will keep this one super short. First -- I sent a follow-up facebook note out today about the marathon fundraiser and the response was amazing! I will have time to acknowledge those who contributed to our donations, as well as give you a total of where we're at (over $1200!!) tomorrow!

As for a workout -- it has been pouring for hours and hours and hours. I don't mind running in the rain, but I wasn't even able to bike home to get my running clothes (didn't want to get my work clothes soaked). Fortunately, my buddy Kevin Albrecht picked me up from the office so I didn't have to sleep here tonight, and let me crash on his couch. I did do the pushups/situps and, of course, the bike ride to work. I'll make up for the run tomorrow (on top of the flag football game).

In honor of it being one week after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (and me not using a quote of his last week), I wanted to throw this one out there today.

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

Some of us have a lot and some of us have less. Of the 6.7 billion people on this planet, all but one of us has more than someone else we're sharing the earth with. There are so many ways to give to those who have less -- whether it's $5, $10, $20 or $200. Here's one way:

You can donate online here: http://www.active.com/donate/daythirtyfive (This is a great way to give and, ultimately, not a bad deal, but so that you don't feel like I'm witholding information from you -- the website charges 6.5% per donation plus $1 per transaction for every donation made. It's still a great way to give!)

But, if you don't want to donate online, you can also send me a check (made out to "Matthew Haines" or "Akili Academy of New Orleans") to the following address:

Attn: Matt Haines
LPTP
200 Broadway Street, Suite #108
New Orleans, LA 70118

Thanks so much and I'll talk to you tomorrow after my run (if the rain ever stops!). :-)