Hey, Amy
here.
We were on a mastermind the other night and my friend Paul (one of the co-founders of the company) read a support ticket that had come in, which was not at all an average support ticket- it was a sincere expression of gratitude.
The message started out with "I wanted to take a moment out of my day to let you
know..."
And this has really stuck with me.
How often do we actually take time out of our day to express gratitude to others? Or to express care or concern? Or give someone a compliment?
As Paul was sharing that message I was thinking, because this person took time out of their day to send this message, now not only is Paul benefiting, but every one of us who he shared it with was benefiting as well.
There's a ripple
effect that goes it onto the world when we express kindness for each other.
And this ripple effect can look a lot of different ways. We actually have no idea what might happen when we we do this for each other.
Another
simple example happened a couple of days ago.
I was walking on the beach and saw an acquaintance of mine that I often see on the beach in the morning when we are walking our dogs.
He was asking about how my recovery is coming with my face from my surfing accident.
So I took off my sunglasses to show him the progress. And I told him I still have a half smile... that the muscles on one side of my mouth are still not functioning. It's a facial paralysis, which Is very awkward for me and I'm super self conscious about it.
When I mentioned this and my half smile to him, his response
was,
"Your half smile is way better than most people's full smile. And then you have those amazing blue eyes too."
I was only with my friend for a couple of minutes, but I took those words into my day on Monday,
and they really helped me.
And they are still with me, obviously... and now I'm sharing them with you.
I feel like this is such a great example of how giving someone a few words of kindness, a compliment, can make
a HUGE difference for someone. And we never know how much of a difference.
I haven't seen my friend since that morning and he has no idea what a difference he made for me. He wasn't trying to do that, he just said something kind, and it helped me.
And we do this all the time, often thinking it's insignificant, but it's often not insignificant at all.
Maybe the things you say are the things that someone else carries around with them all day, or for the days and weeks and months to come.
We never know how much of a difference our words can make.
