The next goal I set for myself is another one to help me lead a happier life. This goal was to make a conscious decision to help someone at least once a week. Choosing to help others is one of the best ways to live a happier life; and it is one of the reasons I am in the profession I am in now.
In Celest's bathroom at the cabin, she has a sign that says something like "100 years from now, it won't matter how much money you had or what kind of car you drove, but the world may be a different place because you made a difference in the life of a child." I don't work with children, but I do work with parents of children, and I can help those parents succeed in their studies and thus live a different life and maybe that will make a difference for their children. I like to think that I am making a difference for the better in the lives of many people for generations to come.
Though this goal has to be outside of my job duties, it can be to help people I know from work or to participate in our charity fund raisers or activities through work. It doesn't have to be big things or big efforts, it can just be listening to someone's problem or donating a dollar in a fundraiser or helping my neighbor out by watching his dog. Every effort makes a difference. I just wanted to make it a conscious choice to make the effort.
This is another goal I struggle with a little. It's not that I don't help people out outside of my job duties - I think that I actually help a lot of people, and rather often - it's that I am not making conscious choices to do so. It's a little distinction, but I put that caveat into this goal for a reason. I want to think about my actions, so I can think about whether what I'm doing is actually helping someone else, and if so, how I can do more in the future, and if I can even make it a habit to do whatever it is I'm doing.
What I think I will have to do about this goal is, instead of making the goal to be to make conscious choices to offer help, is to maybe to take time out during the week at some point and reflect about what opportunities I had to offer someone help, and think about what I did or didn't do. Then, if I think I made choices that helped someone, then think about what I can do in the future to do whatever it was more often or to make it a habit to do those things; and if I missed opportunities to offer help, what I can do to in the future to NOT miss those opportunities.
I think that is absolutely something I can do, and I think I will find that I do help people more than I think I do and at the same time I think I will find that miss a lot more opportunities than I think I do. And either way, I think I will find that there are a lot of opportunities to be of assistance to others. And I think that when I really start to create good habits to help others, I know that I will really make difference for people, little things that will make them happier or make their lives easier in small ways, and in return, my life will be happier and, hopefully, easier in some ways.
In Celest's bathroom at the cabin, she has a sign that says something like "100 years from now, it won't matter how much money you had or what kind of car you drove, but the world may be a different place because you made a difference in the life of a child." I don't work with children, but I do work with parents of children, and I can help those parents succeed in their studies and thus live a different life and maybe that will make a difference for their children. I like to think that I am making a difference for the better in the lives of many people for generations to come.
Though this goal has to be outside of my job duties, it can be to help people I know from work or to participate in our charity fund raisers or activities through work. It doesn't have to be big things or big efforts, it can just be listening to someone's problem or donating a dollar in a fundraiser or helping my neighbor out by watching his dog. Every effort makes a difference. I just wanted to make it a conscious choice to make the effort.
This is another goal I struggle with a little. It's not that I don't help people out outside of my job duties - I think that I actually help a lot of people, and rather often - it's that I am not making conscious choices to do so. It's a little distinction, but I put that caveat into this goal for a reason. I want to think about my actions, so I can think about whether what I'm doing is actually helping someone else, and if so, how I can do more in the future, and if I can even make it a habit to do whatever it is I'm doing.
What I think I will have to do about this goal is, instead of making the goal to be to make conscious choices to offer help, is to maybe to take time out during the week at some point and reflect about what opportunities I had to offer someone help, and think about what I did or didn't do. Then, if I think I made choices that helped someone, then think about what I can do in the future to do whatever it was more often or to make it a habit to do those things; and if I missed opportunities to offer help, what I can do to in the future to NOT miss those opportunities.
I think that is absolutely something I can do, and I think I will find that I do help people more than I think I do and at the same time I think I will find that miss a lot more opportunities than I think I do. And either way, I think I will find that there are a lot of opportunities to be of assistance to others. And I think that when I really start to create good habits to help others, I know that I will really make difference for people, little things that will make them happier or make their lives easier in small ways, and in return, my life will be happier and, hopefully, easier in some ways.
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