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
Originally published on December 21, 2010.
May you enjoy all the colors of Christmas!
PattiAnn and I wish you the best of Christmases! Eat, pray, love… Yeah I know I stole that line but it seems to fit the season. So I say it again… as you gather with loved ones (or ones who need your loving presence) to eat, pray, love – may your celebration of Christmas paint your world with the colors of joy and good will.
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would Continue reading » Launch the Crayola Bomb!
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Whether we like it or not, this country is the target of many hostile forces. The US military are the people who stand guard over our safety and security. As horrific as September 11th was, we’ve had soldiers deployed throughout the world since World War II. Even in “peace time” our soldiers are visible signs of our strength and influence throughout the world. This makes them the target that can be attacked, without warning, at any time, for any reason. This has always been the Continue reading » The Meaning of Veteran’s Day
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
— Proverb Quotes
I was raised in K-Mart, Woolco and Sears, with Sears being the top of the shopping pyramid. My mother liked nice things but she believed that none of us kids would take care of anything, so we shopped exclusively in the discount houses. She couldn’t sew and even if she could have, by the time I was in high school, she was teaching full time while attending DePaul University full time. It would even have been impossible if she had had the Continue reading » What is Sufficient?
May you enjoy all the colors of Christmas!
PattiAnn and I wish you the best of Christmases! Eat, pray, love… Yeah I know I stole that line but it seems to fit the season. So I say it again… as you gather with loved ones (or ones who need your loving presence) to eat, pray, love – may your celebration of Christmas paint your world with the colors of joy and good will.
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would Continue reading » Launch the Crayola Bomb!
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