My friend, Clyde, has a cute little Cavalier dog, Lola, that he spoils so. When Clyde goes on an errand, he takes Lola along. When he goes into a store or has a business meeting, he keeps the car running in winter and summer so that Lola is comfortable. He says apologetically, “Lola has a huge carbon footprint.”
We’re all trying to cut back on our carbon footprint. But what about our karmic footprint? What can we do to leave a positive karmic footprint on the world?
Doing Two Basic Things Each Day will improve our karmic footprint: Try to do something good for someone else. Try to do something good for yourself.
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About dianabletter
Diana Bletter is the author of several books including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (with photographs by Lori Grinker), shortlisted for a National Jewish Book Award, a novel, A Remarkable Kindness, (HarperCollins), a memoir, The Mom Who Took of on her Motorcycle, and The Loving Yourself Book for Women: A Practical Guide to Boost Self-Esteem, Heal Your Inner Child, and Celebrate the Woman You Are, an Amazon top-seller in several categories, and The Loving Yourself Workbook for Girls.
She is the First Prize Winner of Moment Magazine's 2019 Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, tabletmag, Glamour, The Forward, The North American Review and is currently a reporter for The Times of Israel.
Diana and her husband have six children and an unofficially-adopted daughter from Ethiopia. They live in a small village on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel.
DIANA BLETTER 
Diana,
I find that thinking in terms of karma is very effective when approaching social media activities. As an example of your advice to “try to do something good for someone else”, on Twitter I often look through my stream with the sole purpose of finding items to retweet, and I have a large number of blogs in my Reader that I review in order to “shout out” on occasion.
I think if you do the first the second will take care of itself.
Good point, David! Thanks for sharing that.