May 2012
9 posts
How to !hydrate properly after exercise
By Shannon Wagner, Marketing and Community Engagement
We all have our beverages of choice when it comes to rehydrating after a workout, but how do we know we’re fueling our bodies with the right stuff? Improper re-hydration can lead to muscle soreness, headache, dizziness, nausea, and fatigue, and not drinking the right fluids could hinder your recovery process.
To help you make the best choices,...
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Laura from Greatist Invites YOU to Spring Into...
Guest Blog Post by Laura Schwecherl, Outreach Director & Writer at Greatist
It’s that time again — spring is (finally) here! And I, along with the Greatist team, welcome this time of rebirth with open arms — the body needs a little revamping after a winter huddled indoors. (The “it’s too cold” excuse no longer works!) I love nothing more than hitting the running trails and...
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Find Career Clarity With Suzannah Scully!
DailyFeats recently teamed up with lifestyle and career coach, Suzannah Scully to bring you Career Clarity — a 2 week challenge designed to help guide you to open your mind and get clear on your career path. Suzannah hand-picked these feats to align with coaching plan, and she wrote the following descriptions to help you get started.
Career Clarity by Suzannah Scully
!walking – 3x
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National Women’s Health Week: Take Stock of Your...
By Shannon Wagner, Community Engagement Intern
How well do you know your body?
Sure, you could pick yourself out of a line up, but can you say with certainty that your body isn’t trying to tell you something? When was the last time you took stock of your health?
It’s National Women’s Health Week, and this year’s theme is “It’s your time” — time to make your...
Be !livingproof -- Be A Well World Ambassador
By Shannon Wagner, Community Engagement Intern DailyFeats recently teamed up with Deepak Chopra and WellWorld.org to help spread the message of peace, sustainability, and justice. Together we’re asking for 1,000 people to become Well World ambassadors. If we can reach this goal, $250 will be donated to Well World—a organization that provides a platform through which you can think, speak,...
7 Tips To Revolutionize Your Financial Habits
By Shannon Wagner, Community Engagement Intern As many of you already know, we recently launched a challenge with DailyWorth that’s designed to help you streamline your finances and make the most of your savings. Easier said than done, right? That’s why we pulled some of the many practical tips right from the DailyWorth site and compiled them here for you. (This is just a starting...
4 Things a !deepbreath Can Do For You
By Shannon Wagner, Community Engagement Intern We all know that taking a deep breath can relieve tension and anxiety, and help us keep our cool in stressful situations, but deep breathing shouldn’t be reserved for only those moments when we feel stressed. Many people may not know that deep breathing can provide more health benefits than just calm nerves when done regularly. Check out some of the...
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!cutsodium By Cutting Out These Salt Shockers
by Shannon Wagner, Community Engagement Intern Many of us have heard the adage, “Salt is the spice of life.” But is it possible that some of our lives have been a little over-salted? We all know the obvious offenders—chips, pretzels, french fries—but did you know that many of the dressings, sauces, dips, and rubs that we jazz up our food with are loaded with salt? Essentially...
5 Really Good Reasons Why You Should Floss (Every...
by Shannon Wagner, Community Engagement Intern
I’ll admit that when I was younger I didn’t floss. Ever. When a dentist appointment came near, I would sort of “cram floss”—that is, I would floss the night before and again right before the appointment, thinking that would be enough to get out any food particles that were stuck in my teeth. The dentist would ask if I floss, and if so, how...
April 2012
6 posts
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Keeping you in the loop!
By Sara Hopson, Manager of Community Engagement (@sahopson)
We’re always striving to make your DailyFeats experience as inspirational and celebratory as possible by enhancing the best the site has to offer and simplifying the whole process to make it easier for you to check in your feats. This post is meant to properly keep you in the loop! Let’s get right down to it and go over what’s...
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“As I am writing post, I have such a huge smile on my face. I’m in a good place...”
– Going for a Big Dream as a Motivational Speaker in South Africa
(via 8womendream)
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Hot Topic: Let's talk two cool dudes who know a...
*Habit loop template from charlesduhigg.com, images added by us :)
Do you want to be a habit-forming, positive-action check-in whiz?
By Sara Hopson, Manager of Community Engagement @sahopson
Here at DailyFeats, as you’ve noticed, we’re all about good. A few months ago as we started to delve more into how we could actually be motivated to do more good on a daily basis, we...
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Epic Checkin Contest Winner: Rama's epic !hiking...
Rama’s epic !hiking feat inspired us. Her check-ins are consistently upbeat and celebratory, which is just the attitude we hope DailyFeats conveys and helps others to adopt. She’s also been around these parts for quite a while and has checked in over 7,000 feats! That’s a whole lot of good. Here’s what she had to say about her hike: “It was about 7 mile hike up to...
March 2012
11 posts
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Listen up!
By Maria Jose Villa @majov
In my family we have a saying: “Only drunks and children tell the truth, so trust them”. Well, personally, I would much rather hear it from the latter.
As an individual, company or family we need to take each day as an opportunity to improve ourselves. It’s hard! If you are like me, you’re just trying to get through the day. However, if each...
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DailyFeats Is Proud to Join the Certified B...
DailyFeats, which helps people reach their goals through small, positive steps, is proud to announce that it is now a Certified B Corporation. B Corporations are a new kind of company which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.
Certified B Corporations meet higher standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. Unlike...
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New Feats = More Good!
We’ve added three new feats to our site this week. Have you been itching to check any of these in? Now’s the time to celebrate the good you do - even if it’s as seemingly simple as the morning ironing or asking someone for a helping hand. Also, after getting lots of suggestions to this end, we added a whole new feat category visible in Browse Feats called New Feats so that if...
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Walking you through the new DailyFeats
By Sara Hopson
Welcome to your new DailyFeats!
Goals are the new way of organizing feats. They can take the form of a to-do list, bucket list, or just focus around a certain area of your life. You’re able to use others’ goals as a template for your own, and edit them accordingly, or create a new goal completely customized to your liking. Goals are organized around eight topic...
“Here in the West, where women have access to quality healthcare, free...”
– —From “International Women’s Day Call to Action: Integrate Family Planning and HIV Services to Save Women’s Lives,” March 8, 2012, Huffington Post.
On International Women’s Day, a reminder that though here in the U.S. we still have a long way to go in terms of improving access to birth control and...
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A Few Good Pins This Week - March 9, 2012
This week, four of our five most beloved pins on Pinterest were… recipes! These are all on our !energizingmeal pinboard. And as for the other guy? Also worth your time. I might even recommend printing that one out.
1. This healthier cobb salad is from one of my favorite recipe bloggers, Anne-Marie of This Mama Cooks (On a Diet!). She has some really clever suggestions of how to turn this...
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Epic Checkin Contest Winner: Jenny's...
By Sara Hopson @sahopson
Jenny, of Arlington, VA, won the epic feat contest this week because her check-in and the story that accompanied it showed how proud and excited she was for the progress her foster dog, Christmas, has made leading up to being adopted. And what’s more, her selfless act of getting this dog ready to go to a loving and devoted home is what we’re all about —...
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Q: What do slow cookers and compliments have in...
A: Well, you can now check them in for points on DailyFeats.com, that’s what.
More new feats! This time, it’s two things that are bound to make you feel good, one way or another: !slowcooker and !compliment. Go do good with some savory recipes or some sweetness to another person today.
Jackie Mahendra: TechCruch: "The Curated Web Will... →
jackiemahendra:
Nir Eyal writes:
Increasingly, companies will become experts at designing user habits. Curated Web companies already rely on these methods. This new breed of company, defined by the ability to help users find only the content they care about, includes such white-hot companies as…
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New Feats = More Good!
by Sara Hopson (@sahopson)
I just love when we get new feats on the site. The fresh and pretty stamps, the funny and interesting summaries, and more opportunities for you to tell us about the good you’re doing with these actions. Markus and Maryellen even included some tips for snow shoveling on that feat’s page and a heart-warming example of a pay-it-forward coffee shop on...
February 2012
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What do goals mean to you?
By Sara Hopson @sahopson
A goal means different things to different people. Sometimes it has an endpoint. Sometimes it’s a lifestyle or way of thinking: “I want to be an active, caring parent every day.” Sometimes it’s about fitting in to a little black dress or an old pair of jeans. Our goals are complex, made up of many different types of actions across a range of time that may shrink or expand...
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The new DailyFeats makes reaching your goals fun
We’d like you to be among the first to know that we’re making some big improvements to DailyFeats. This is just a heads-up: you’ll be able to explore them over the next few days, but consider this your field guide to the new DailyFeats. Ready?
Introducing Goals
Chances are, most of the feats you regularly check in are tied to an important goal or strong value you have. Maybe...
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A Few Good Pins This Week - February 24, 2012
Roasted veggies, yoga poses, pickle dip, and a cutesy chart that has the power to change your very life. Oh and something for you vegetarians too.
Enjoy our most loved, liked, and repinned goodness for this week and be sure to follow us on Pinterest so we can follow your pins and this Pinterest lovefest can continue!
1. 7 Roasted Vegetables Your Family Will Love (via Babble.com)
Love is a...
Collaborative Fund: The Three Most Important... →
Great post by Ron Gonen, cofounder of RecycleBank and one of our advisory board members, about how important it is to be around the right people in order to be successful.
collaborativefund:
In the past decade I’ve been an entrepreneur, seed investor and startup board member. During that time, I’ve learned that the three most important ingredients to the success are #1 people, #2 people, and...
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Epic Checkin Contest Winner: Cheryl's touching &...
Cheryl entered her !teachyourkids epic feat in our weekly epic checkin contest, and after reading about her son’s triumph, we had to choose it as the winner. Props to Cheryl for being such a dedicated and passionate parent to such a wonderful kid. Here’s her story:
“My son is almost 10. He has autism spectrum disorder and some other medical conditions. He is bright,...
In Case You've Missed It: The Week of February 6,...
nicole-clark:
From sexual health, mental wellness, relationships, and everything in between, these are some of the news highlights that have happened this week:
President Obama punks the GOP on contraception, creating a compromise that addresses their concerns about religious institutions how having a say in the birth control debate, but without actually reducing women’s access to...
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Featured Friend of DailyFeats: Generosity Day
Click the image to go to the Causes.com Generosity Day page
We were excited to reboot Valentine’s Day with Sasha Dichter, creator of the Acumen Fund, and his wonderful idea that shows how true, selfless love of our fellow (wo)man combined with simply saying “yes” to requests can make a difference in the world.
Generosity Day challenges you to do one simple thing differently:...
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WatchNancy did !loseapound and entered it in our first Epic Checkin Contest. Her feat check-in is here, and she told us what made this feat extra special for her:
“I’d successfully kept off the #100 pounds I’d lost five years ago until I had to quit my gym a few months ago because of an eye problem that doesn’t let me get hit in the head (I had done Muay Thai and BJJ)....
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Nonprofit Spotlight: The Oath Project
Since the financial crisis in 2008, pressure has mounted on financial leaders to take responsibility for their actions. The Oath Project, one of our non-profit partners, is designed to teach business managers to implement ethical and socially responsible business into their responsibility into the culture, core values, and day-to-day operations. Financial leaders and their companies employ more...
January 2012
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Featured Friend of DailyFeats: The Giving Keys
This week our featured friend is Caitlin Crosby of The Giving Keys, a charity that sells custom-made key necklaces engraved with empowering words. All proceeds go toward helping the homeless people that work there afford start new lives off the streets. And the matching featured feat? !payitforward, of course! I spoke with Caitlin last week. Here’s her story…
Singer/actress Caitlin...
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A Few Good Pins This Week - January 27, 2012
Hi Featers!
Our pin blog this week is all over the place - from yummy recipes (both containing cheese, of course - oops!) to inspiring quotes to kitchen organization tips. And don’t forget to check out the no-more-muffin-top-tips. :)
Follow our Pinterest boards and share the love.
1. Sir Edmund Hilary quote: “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
2. 5 easy...
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Nonprofit Spotlight: Prevent Cancer Foundation
If you knew it were within your power to potentially stop something horrible and life-threatening from happening to you, what would you do? Well, you would probably try to stop it, right? Fortunately, when it comes to preventing cancer, there are many easy ways to proactively protect yourself. Prevent Cancer Foundation, one of our nonprofit partners, wants you to do them all and check them in on...
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A Member Testimonial: Ameliab555
We have genuine, helpful interactions happening on our site every day. It’s an added bonus when we get to put a face with a name that’s become familiar to us, and share a member’s story with you.
Amy (Ameliab555 on DailyFeats.com) shot a testimonial over to us this week and it made our day! See it on our video testimonial page.
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DailyFeats Partners with ONE!
1.4 billion people in the world have to live on less than $1 a day. ONE is trying to change that, and DailyFeats is proud to announce a partnership with them.
ONE is doing the important work of fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease in the hardest-hit parts of the world, particularly Africa. Cofounded by Bono and others, ONE is responsible for some of the most visible fundraising...
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A Few Good Pins This Week - January 20, 2012
The buzz on Pinterest is growing with each passing week! We’re thrilled to bring you lots of healthy-living info in this edition of our best pins of the week. The basic low-down on these pins, in feat-speak? !ingredientcheck, !cook, !creativeproject, !trysomethingnew, !workout (!doitnow!)
See more pins on our Pinterest boards, follow us, and check in whatever good you do today on...
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“Dear Daily Feats Folks; I LOVE your web site! It inspires and motivates me to...”
– Sheryl, a DailyFeats member, sent this to our customer service e-mail and said she would be proud to share it with her co-Featers.
Thanks, Sheryl! :)
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DailyFeats Member of the Week: Courtney
One of my favorite parts of working at DailyFeats is spending time scrolling through the live feed of feat check-ins. After a couple days here, I noticed a trend: one of our members named Courtney was checking in a lot - and not just feat after feat, but including inspiring details and genuine introspection. I liked reading her check-ins because you could tell she was really on a mission to...
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A Few Good Pins This Week - January 13, 2012
Last week our first Pinterest pin roundup was a big hit, so here it is again. This week the most popular pins were of the foodie variety, but there’s a couple other gems as well. (From our Pinterest boards - which include a new one where you can pin your own feats with accompanying photos! Just e-mail Sara@DailyFeats.com for access.)
1. Open-faced Avocado and Goat Cheese Sandwich
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Featured Friend of DailyFeats: Greatist.com
Our friends over at Greatist run a site that’s not only pleasing to the eye, but to your fitness, health, and happiness meters as well. They cover an array of subjects (as you can see in their A-Z Guide) and the writers are spunky, spiritual, and savvy in the ways of living their best life. They even included DailyFeats on their list of the 45 most innovative health and fitness startups....
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Better Together
By Nathan Rothstein, @nrothstein
Kay Lazar wrote a timely article in today’s Boston Globe about a very successful preventive health care measure in the state of Massachusetts. A recent study, published yesterday in the medical journal, PLoS One, found that “for every dollar Massachusetts spends on an anti-smoking campaign for low-income residents, it saves $3 dollars in medical costs, largely...
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Got it covered for the New Year?
It takes more than a blanket to be fully covered in the new year.
Accept the challenge to feel safe and happy between the sheets in 2012.
We love this graphic from Bedsider’s home page.
Today, we launced the Got It Covered challenge with Bedsider, the free online birth control support network. This challenge is all about making sure women are safe and smart before they get sexy.
In...
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A Few Good Pins This Week - January 6, 2012
In the first installment of what we’ll make a weekly post on the DailyFeats blog, I bring you a few good pins from our Pinterest boards. Ranging from !healthymeal recipes to images to help you !getinspired, these were the pins that got the most love lately. Check them out, and don’t forget to follow us for more pinny goodness.
1. The 15 Most Inspiring Health & Fitness Images of...
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A Picture of the Modern Mom
In September, Modern Mom magazine, an online destination for “the woman behind the mom”, surveyed its readers on how they use digital technology. The findings are a treasure trove of interesting stats for those of us who are passionate about catering to moms, and for moms themselves — the information celebrates the many hats that moms wear at any given time.
Moms today can be...