While reading one of my favorite magazines, I read a feature called “How do you stay connected to the people you care about most?”

While there were some really great entries, one stood out to me as brilliant. Obviously the folks at RealSimple thought so too because it was selected as this month’s winning entry.

A woman from Bowling Green, Ohio submitted:

I’m doing this thing called Reach Out ‘09. Each day I choose someone in my life to email, phone, visit or write a letter to. It really helps me stay connected.

Would you be able to commit to such a hefty goal? I’m not sure I could manage every single day, but I’d sure like to attempt a twice a week time when I could perhaps sit down and select two or three people to drop a note or a card to just to let them know I was thinking about them.

I’m not talking just any note or card either – I’m talking old fashioned, handwritten, from the heart, snail mail notes and cards.

I have to wonder how many people actually take time to stay connected with those they care about most.