Make 2012 the year you commit daily acts of random kindness – it’ll escalate wellness all over the place!
Double Whammy: The occurrence of two SUPER AWESOME things/events at one time
— UrbanDictionary.com
Today I’m advocating that you turn your attention, your efforts, your energy toward doing random acts of kindness for others. And already a voice inside your head objects: Wait a minute! It’s the beginning of a new year and I really need to focus on my own goals! But that’s what Dan Rockwell, a.k.a. the Leadership Freak, calls “wrong-headed thinking”:
We’ve all heard people wishing they had more opportunities. This happens for two reasons:
- Comparing our opportunities with others makes us want what others have. Envy and greed are, however, partners with emptiness and frustration.
- Wrong-headed thinking about opportunities. Opportunities are not primarily about getting. Getting is the result of opportunity not the opportunity itself.
Opportunities are your chance to add value before receiving benefit…You have more opportunities than you can imagine because opportunities are about giving. The more value you add, the greater the opportunity.
Ok – so here’s the good news: I’m not suggesting you spend all day doing good – nope, I’m only suggesting that you devote about three minutes a day to this “doing good for others” thing. And the best news of all: your actions will create a cascading double whammy effect.
Do the Double Whammy Twofer
Two wellness increases for the price of one… that’s what you get when you perform random acts of kindness:
- You reduce your stress by doing something good for Other People (OPs).
- OPs then have something good to put on their What-Went-Well List at the end of the day which increases their sense of well being.
There you have it, wellness spread like peanut butter on bread – all over the place! But in only three minutes??? Come on, how can that be? Well, I’m suggesting that you do TEN of what Jason F. Wright dubs the Continue reading » Escalate Flourishing with a Double Whammy Two-fer
Have you ever found yourself totally distracted by an issue that isn’t relevant to the moment?
My laptop’s volume control is possessed.
It comes on all by itself eventually reaching the highest volume point…
It goes off but returns when I am busy doing something else…
Over and over and over and over…
It is very maddening.
— Unknown Author to Help Desk
Do you ever feel like trolls have taken control of your psyche? For instance, several times a day my desire for sweets drowns out my good intentions to diet and I find myself searching the premises for something sweet when I should be doing something else. How annoying!
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
— Jerry M. Wright
Ah – the old “righty tighty, lefty loosey” maxim rules, even in matters of maturity! But sometimes it’s not Continue reading » How to Dial Down the Volume
Have you ever caught yourself muttering “if only…”?
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
— Mercedes Lackey
I suspect that many of us have a secret list crammed with things that we’d love to do – if only… Continue reading » Clear Vision
Are you guilty of Splat Head? If you’re multitasking and proud of it, think again…
We cannot control the parade of thoughts marching through our minds. But we can choose which ones we will give our attention to. Picture your thoughts as people passing by the front of your home. Just because they’re walking by doesn’t mean you have to invite them in.
— Unknown
I’m guilty of Splat Head; I multitask as often as I can. How about you? On her blog, Christine Kane writes about multitasking – and she seems equate it to a disease:
Many of us – especially artists, creative types, and the self-employed – catch Attention Splatter. It’s insidious. We’re so good at multi-tasking and being available to all things at all times that we don’t even realize that we’re only half present to any given one of them. Our attention is splattered.
Interestingly enough, as much as we publicly disparage multi-tasking, many of us secretly believe it’s a skill, something that some people do well, and many of us count ourselves as among that “do well” crowd. Somehow those insidious, sneaky little tasks nibble away at our consciousness and lull us into believing we’re better off doing Continue reading » Splat Head!
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