The Year of Me is about us. & How can you can participate.

So the big birthday in “The Year of Me” is coming up this Sunday.

I’ve taken my share of crap over “The Year of Me” thing but if you remember (this link will serve as a reminder back to my original post), The Year of Me is meant to be more than a year about me.

One of the key points of that I stated then is I wanted to be more philanthropic with my money and my time.  On the time side, I’m spending more of that volunteering with Zack’s baseball league this year and I’ve met a number of great people doing that.

On the money side, well here’s my idea and it’s tied into my 50th birthday on Sunday.

One of the cool things about Facebook is that you are reminded about your Friend’s birthdays so that you can post a message on their wall that day.  You feel good, they feel good.  I see the point, but there’s nothing actionable from that, it’s cool and all but at the end of that exercise there’s a long list of “Happy Birthday” greetings on a wall.

So this year, I encourage everyone to wish me “Happy Birthday” on my wall. In addition to the greeting please also include your favorite charity.

For every charity mentioned Kyra and I will donate one dollar (sorry honey for not discussing this with you first :)).  Out of that dollar 52 cents will go the Eric LeGrand Believe Fund.  Eric is the Rutgers football player paralyzed while playing football last year and included in the “Year of Me” post.

The other 48 cents of each dollar will go to one of the charities mentioned along with the birthday greetings on my wall.  If you’re a Twitter person and want to tweet me a “Happy Birthday” and a charity, please do so and those tweets will be counted in the mix as well.

I have a great wife, family, business, partner, co-workers and life.  The “Year of Me” is much more about me, it’s about all of us and what we do with our lives.

If you think I’m being a bit selfish and all I want is tons of people to send me birthday greetings on Sunday, you’re absolutely right.

That way you can help me spread some “Year of Me” cheer to others who are less fortunate.

Please share, post, retweet, etc. this post so we can spread that cheer together.