“Charles Dickens wrote, “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another….You know what’s so awesome about thinking about others instead of focusing on ourselves all the time? It’s actually good for us. Forbes recently featured an article that talked about how helping others reduces our own stress levels. Emily Ansell of Yale University School of Medicine offered, ‘Our research shows that when we help others we can also help ourselves….Stressful days usually lead us to have a worse mood and poorer mental health, but our findings suggest that if we do small things for others…we won’t feel as poorly on stressful days. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, ‘The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.’ We do this by reaching out, by finding a need, however small, and filling it. It doesn’t matter what person we do this for: friends, family, or total strangers. What matters is doing something outside of ourselves.” —-An excerpt from Tim Tebow’s book, “Shaken”