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Try a little kindness

Guest post by: Ian Berry

Article Overview: The kinder we are to others the happier we are, and the better life treats us. We can all be kinder. Here are some actions I have taken and others have taken with me that have struck me as valuable:

Try a little kindness

© Ian Berry. All rights reserved. The kinder we are to others the happier we are, and the better life treats us.

We can all be kinder. Here are some actions I have taken and others have taken with me that have struck me as valuable:

• Take time to reflect and meditate daily
• When things don’t go according to plan, understand the learning and move on
• Be true to yourself and truthful with others
• Be warm and friendly
• Hold no grudges or ill feeling towards anyone
• Make good contact with others
• Make people feel at home
• Trust others
• Be attentive i.e. listen to others without judgement or advice in mind
• Be proud but not boastful
• Feel with others
• Compare yourself with your own results not other people’s
• Have no expectations of others except in the context of shared agreements of how you will hold others to account as their performance partner
• Always be alert to learning opportunities
• Express joy at other people’s successes
• Follow your own rythm and allow others to follow theirs
• Be generous
• Have an attitude of gratitude - Be grateful for what you’ve got (only then can you have more of what you want)
• Respect everyone as the one-of-a-kind each of us is
• Mean it when you say thank you; send heartfelft thank you notes
• Go with the flow; be flexible
• Stand by people
• Be available for others
• Always act in a spirit of service
• Say joy out loud whenever you feel it

With thanks to Piero Ferrucci ‘The Power of Kindness’ Penguin 2006

Be the difference you want to see in the world

Ian

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