My reflection on yesterday's challenge:
How'd you go with yesterdays challenge? Were you conscious of your emotions? Did you change you thinking. Here's an example of what happened to me and how I took on the challenge.
The bathrooms in the house needed cleaning yesterday. I told my family member that this was the schedule. I cleaned, scrubbed and mopped the floor, scrubbed the shower, basin and toilet in the master.
It was time to clean the family bathroom. In an effort to get the family member motivated to help, I send them in to start. I initially started to raise my voice as I typically have to do this. I stopped myself and directed instead with a smooth voice to start with the shampoo bottles and throw any used ones out, then to start scrubbing the floor of the shower. What a marvellous job was done. Spotless. Beautiful. Very impressed I complemented on the job well done. I then directed them to the bath. Wonderful job! I cleaned the sink and the vanity and then the family member mopped the floor without asking.
What would have happened if I'd started off the whole episode raising my voice to get their attention? grumpiness perhaps? This is one instant where I caught myself out. Stopped and changed the way I look at this situation, accessed my emotion and changed how I dealt with it. Quietening my voice instead of being irritated and making more noise than was necessary. It worked out well.
Today's Topic:
Just found this wonderful quote from the book Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley, " As powerful as you are...whose day are you going to make today? "It's easy to go about you day and serve people. I mean as parents, partners, workers, even as citizens we are constantly doing something expected of us by another whether in public or private. Do you agree? Think on that. This quote though lends itself to thinking wider than those immediately around us. When was the last time you gave a random person a smile and a hello. When was the last time you undertook to act and help another who had no expectation from you, with you're intent coming purely from an empathetic or altruistic place? Yesterday a lady was struggling with a child and numerous bags she was about to carry away from the till. She hadn't got a shopping trolley. I said, "you're going to need some help with those." I grabbed half of the bags, she the other half and we carried them to her car. She was able to keep a firm grasp on her squirming child too. Luckily and thankfully she didn't give me the look of omg you're a weirdo. I just said pay it forward to which she responded she would. It just felt right to help. I don't know if I made her day, but it was something I could do to assist someone to perhaps have a better day. This is a personal power to make a difference. We may cause an event and may never see the effect, but choosing to act can make a big difference to someones day.
Our challenge today:
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