Baby Steps Lead To Avalanches
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
Essential Ingredient #5
Life Lesson #3 Pay It Forward and Create Miracles
I think of all the lessons in this book, this one will be the easiest concept for many to grasp and the shortest one for me to write.
Most people believe they have an understanding of what paying it forward means and how to put the behavior into practice, but how many actually do it?
A random act of kindness; putting a quarter in a meter that’s just about to expire, paying the toll of the driver behind you at the toll booth, or maybe the person in front of you at the grocery store is a little short and you chip in the extra couple of buck. Kindness comes in all shapes and sizes and has been known to be highly contagious.
Paying it forward is about doing random acts of kindness without expecting or wanting anything for yourself in return. If you do something for someone and they ask you how they can pay you back tell them by paying it forward. By asking them to pay it forward you have given them the opportunity to experience the joy that comes from helping someone with no strings attached, no expectations, no rules, no if’s, ands or buts.
Random acts of kindness have the ability to bring a smile to the face of everyone involved. I think it has something to do with the fact that there are no strings attached, and since there are no strings all that is left is the joy of giving.
My friend Steve buys flowers and hands them out at the gas station, I pay the toll of the person behind me at the toll booth, Lucky takes care of our neighbor’s driveway whenever it snows, Sally brightens a friends day by picking up phone just to let them know how important and special they are, once a month someone bakes a cake and delivers it to someone who’s feeling down, and Mariann drives 25min out of her way to bring a sick friend some homemade soup.
Kindness, to a friend or stranger has an amazing impact on all of us. Next time the opportunity presents itself will you be ready? Next time someone does something nice for you pay it forward.
• Reminder; all exercises come directly from the book Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction: 7 Essential Ingredients for Living a Prosperous Life
Exercise 1
1. Look for an opportunity this week to do an unselfish act of kindness for someone and ask them to pay the kindness forward to someone else.
2. In your Prosperity Journal write about what the experience was like for you and how it made you feel.
3. From now on whenever someone does something nice for you, look for two opportunities to pay it forward.
Be prepared to sit back and watch the rippling effect of how powerful and positive this is. It will help make this year better for many…as well as for you!
Tomorrow: Essential Ingredient #5
Baby Steps Lead To Avalanches
Life Lesson # 4 How To Make Fear Your Ally
Smile Often
Barbara
LifeTude
Being Human
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