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Morning question, What good shall I do this day?

Evening question, What good have I done today?

Everyday I ask, Who have I served? Who could I help? What do they need? What more can I do?

I’ve felt a certain amount of social accountability my whole life. And honestly, it can be overwhelming at times. It’s only in the last year that I’ve allowed myself to “do good” and serve other people more effectively by simplifying my own life and making simple deliberate choices each day.

Now with #vampiremode and a relationship where we are both lucky enough to make our own schedules, I am certainly not operating by the same hours Ben Franklin scheduled in his day planner, but I’ve employed his approach to give myself perspective; I’ve made time each day for diversion, reading, consideration and examination of my work, and lately I’ve been sleeping more, for me. I also dine WELL (ilyms).

Now… What Shall We Do?

What shall we do with the layout of our lives so that we can make the greatest impact on the world?

What do you do to foster the personal focus and energy necessary to ask, “What good shall I do this day?” and “What good have I done today?” And what do you do to ensure that you feel the sense of social responsibility that pushes you to follow through, especially when it’s easier to quit?

Also, Thanks to Ben Franklin for Daylight Savings Time.

As Executive Producer and Artistic Director of the NC Comedy Arts Festival, I want to personally welcome you and invite you to enjoy the largest comedic event in the South.

DSI Comedy Theater works yearlong to produce the most thrilling festival possible and we are dedicated to supporting the local comedy scene so that the very best comedians in the country want to play here. I’m enormously proud of what this festival has accomplished since 2001 and I hope everyone reading this will have an opportunity to witness the immense amount of talent we’ll have in the Triangle during the month of February, to experience the community and, most importantly, to laugh.

If this is the first you’ve heard of the NC Comedy Arts Festival, let me take a moment to tell you what we do. For the last decade, NCCAF has welcomed comedy acts from across North America to showcase improv, sketch and standup comedy right here in the heart of North Carolina.

Each week the festival showcases a different comedy genre. This year we open with sketch comedy and film. Week two boasts some of the hottest up-and-coming standup acts on the road today and week three closes with a return to our roots with 26 incredible improv comedy shows featuring acts from New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto and North Carolina.

If you are returning as an audience member or participant, welcome back and thank you. Its dedicated comedy fans and artists like you that make this festival possible year after year.

And for the 2011 festival my company has decided to donate 10% of ALL proceeds to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA We Build People Scholarship Campaign.

If we Sold Out our Festival shows we could raise $10,000 for the YMCA! So buy a ticket TODAY for you and a family member, buy a block for people at work or click around the festival site and suggest shows for your friends to go see. Laugh Out Loud and help DSI make a difference in the community.

NCCAF Sketch Comedy (February 2-5), http://nccomedyarts.com/sketch

NCCAF Standup Comedy (February 9-13), http://nccomedyarts.com/standup

NCCAF Improv Comedy (February 16-20), http://nccomedyarts.com/improv

Thank you.