It's Contagious
Why I created this group
In the last few years I have had a few epiphanies. One is that life is too short. Being mad about things I can't change and obessing on them actually doesnt help. For years I always posed the question WHY?!! Why do bad things happen to me? WHY did this or that happen? Why can't I get ahead? Etc.
One thing I can tell you now is the more you ask WHY the more your situation will not change. Over the years I became successful had a good life etc. But inside I still struggled with feeling like I needed more and more of what I still can't tell you. I can tell you when it happend for me it was like a light switch was turned on. I woke up one morning and just said, WOW life is too short to get upset, carry a heavy heart, walk with a chip on your shoulder etc. Suddenly it was no longer important to win every argument, or to insult someone because it was funny, or be rude to the waitress because my order was wrong, or someone cut me off. Suddenly all of that behaivor seemed unimportant and silly.
I have been living my life this way for some time now and people that knew me "when" I think are quite amazed. I mean I was always a good person, but I just had a chip on my shoulder and could go from 0-BITCH in less than 5 seconds. When someone would complain to me before in business if they were wrong i did everything I could to let them know just how wrong they were and it was just on the principle. Now, it is not even worth my time. If they feel they did not get what they paid for I just give a little more. If I cut someone off, I waive and give the biggest I am SORRY mouthing the words in my car.
Now I make a point to smile when I am out, and every single time I am checking out of any store I make a point to ask the checker how they are FIRST. I TIP my wait staff BIG TIME. If someone drops something in the store or someone takes an apple off the store cart and tons fall I dont act like I did not see it, I help them pick it up.
I am a huge believer in the law of attraction. What you focus on you get. and also What goes around comes around.
BUT the purpose of this group is more of a social experiment to see how many people we can get together to do good things. Karma- Cause and effect. I was in a diner with my step daughter a few weeks ago and someone paying did not have enough money so I said, "Oh here let me take care of that for you". Of course the women was like OH NO, its ok Ill just come back, I said really its not much, its my pleasure. etc. She said thanks and she said I will go to the bank and be back. I told her to please not do that, just pass it on. If someone need something and you can provide it please do. She agreed. SO long story short, this is why I am doing this. My daughter looked at me and smiled and said I just love it that you do stuff like that you do it for the karma dont you??? I laughed and said, well I dont do it to get anything out of it I do it because its the right thing to do.
I know people do great things all day long, but now you have a place where you can blog about it. While I dont think people should do for others just to get something back, that is not what this is about. Do something nice, blog about it and make it your mission to do some nice things. Do them then post them and lets see how far we can take this.
One thing I can tell you now is the more you ask WHY the more your situation will not change. Over the years I became successful had a good life etc. But inside I still struggled with feeling like I needed more and more of what I still can't tell you. I can tell you when it happend for me it was like a light switch was turned on. I woke up one morning and just said, WOW life is too short to get upset, carry a heavy heart, walk with a chip on your shoulder etc. Suddenly it was no longer important to win every argument, or to insult someone because it was funny, or be rude to the waitress because my order was wrong, or someone cut me off. Suddenly all of that behaivor seemed unimportant and silly.
I have been living my life this way for some time now and people that knew me "when" I think are quite amazed. I mean I was always a good person, but I just had a chip on my shoulder and could go from 0-BITCH in less than 5 seconds. When someone would complain to me before in business if they were wrong i did everything I could to let them know just how wrong they were and it was just on the principle. Now, it is not even worth my time. If they feel they did not get what they paid for I just give a little more. If I cut someone off, I waive and give the biggest I am SORRY mouthing the words in my car.
Now I make a point to smile when I am out, and every single time I am checking out of any store I make a point to ask the checker how they are FIRST. I TIP my wait staff BIG TIME. If someone drops something in the store or someone takes an apple off the store cart and tons fall I dont act like I did not see it, I help them pick it up.
I am a huge believer in the law of attraction. What you focus on you get. and also What goes around comes around.
BUT the purpose of this group is more of a social experiment to see how many people we can get together to do good things. Karma- Cause and effect. I was in a diner with my step daughter a few weeks ago and someone paying did not have enough money so I said, "Oh here let me take care of that for you". Of course the women was like OH NO, its ok Ill just come back, I said really its not much, its my pleasure. etc. She said thanks and she said I will go to the bank and be back. I told her to please not do that, just pass it on. If someone need something and you can provide it please do. She agreed. SO long story short, this is why I am doing this. My daughter looked at me and smiled and said I just love it that you do stuff like that you do it for the karma dont you??? I laughed and said, well I dont do it to get anything out of it I do it because its the right thing to do.
I know people do great things all day long, but now you have a place where you can blog about it. While I dont think people should do for others just to get something back, that is not what this is about. Do something nice, blog about it and make it your mission to do some nice things. Do them then post them and lets see how far we can take this.
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