Category: Generosity & Kindness

“Reaching out and valuing other lives is the only way to be trusted and never forgotten.” ― Isabella Koldras When you’re reaching out to someone in your life (a friend, a family member, a colleague) how often is that communication selfless? Are you reaching out to discuss a situation or circumstance in your life, or are you genuinely making contact to show they are trusted and never forgotten? The way I see it, there are listeners and talkers in society – and lately I feel as though I’ve been straddling the line between the two. What I’ve discovered is that being the listener comes with drawbacks. The main one being when you’re reaching out to the talker for a comforting and safe environment to share your feelings, they’re rarely around to…

“Sometimes, all it takes is one kind word to nourish another person. Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many.” ― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember When opportunities fall through your fingers like particles of sand, you’re often left deflated and demoralized. You question whether or not you’ll find the courage to believe in yourself and continue moving forward. But then something truly wonderful happens. One kind word completely derails your deflated and demoralized feelings and suddenly you realize that everything happens for a reason. That today you’re you and frankly that’s enough. I recently found myself experiencing the feelings above as an opportunity I was convinced would…

“It’s not what we have in our life, but WHO we have in our life that counts.” – J.M. Laurence I recently heard this story, which will help illustrate my point that what we have in life is so meaningless – especially, if you never take the time to enjoy it with the people you love. Not unlike many generations in the past, a middle-aged woman was given a beautiful set of fine china when she and her husband were first married. And not unlike many generations in the past, she kept it locked away (literally) in a display cabinet – physically touching it only once a year when it was time to take it out and clean it. Otherwise, its intended purpose was never fulfilled. Then one day, a…