2. Join a community at work on your cause and ask how you can help.
3. Devote fifteen to thirty minutes per day to being of service in whatever way is comfortable for you.
4. Keep a journal on your feelings, efforts, expectations, outcomes, and goals.
5. Be gentle with yourself. Ingesting violent imagery on a consistent basis can be very damaging.
6. Take a time-out to laugh, be silly, have fun, play with your kids, nephews, nieces, watch standup comedy and take your self out of your self everyday.
7. Spend some time doing mindless or mindful physical activites. Walk, run, bike, clean, meditate, paint your apartment.
8. Socialize everyday even if it means going to the movies and chatting with the usher. Isolation causes desperation.
9. Step back when you feel overwhelmed. You cannot ingest a continuous amount of negativity on a variety of issues without slipping into a quicksand of hopelessness and negativity.
10. Watching videos of individuals being murdered is not activism; it's masochism. Unless you are a part of an investigative team, journalist, or a member of a jury, there is no benefit to be gained from watching assasinations. The visceral response to watching a video tends to revisit one's mind at unexpected times and this affects both mental and physical health.
11. Activism is humbling. We can each do a small part to eradicate societal ills and it must be a collaborative effort. To work in isolation is to fail and experience a greater sense of hopelessness.
12. Self-care, self-care, self-care. Often, a person will say "I love myself" because it is an accepted American mantra; however, if you examine your daily actions, do you SHOW yourself some love everyday?
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