Daily Appreciations Project

I want to share a little bit about an interesting project started as a Friendship Archway program:

This project helps to build  A Beautiful Community of allies and friends of diverse backgrounds, sharing joy, friendship and prosperity as a model for personal, economic, spiritual  and community development to undo fear, guilt, ignorance, poverty and suffering with Infinite Love through the practice of Daily Appreciations and Friendship Archway programs.

We see self-empowerment (or anti-poverty) as a three-part process:

  1. Inner awareness and appreciation leading to healthier self-acceptance, self-love and a sense of joy, peace of mind and enlightenment. This includes shifting one’s focus to appreciation and forgiveness, undoing misperceptions and developing important personal qualities for enduring success.
  2. Outer or interpersonal relationship development by expressing one’s appreciation daily, being truly helpful as a friend and ally thus creating “a  beautiful community” from “spiritually beautiful people.”
  3. Financial success and prosperity programs providing security and enhanced ability to not only take care of oneself, one’s immediate family and friends, but also to support, assist and contribute to others and to world peace, prosperity and progress.

Success is seen not only in financial terms alone but in the ultimate goal of combining inner development (joy) with harmonious outer relationship (friendship) in community-building so that all achieve economic success (prosperity). These three are all inter-related and inter-linked (joy, friendship and prosperity) in Friendship Archway programs and models to bridge cultural divides and achieve the highest human, economic, spiritual and community potential locally and globally.

I highly recommend the work of Dr. Dwan L. Tai — not only this online community project, but also the “Allies Building Community” work in Washington, DC. I feel Dr. Tai is a knowledgeable coach and a great leader who is very integrated and involved in the building and development of local businesses in downtown Washington, DC.