3. What help can you get to release those emotions you said NO earlier in this process?


FEAST OF KINDNESS CHALLENGE


9. 10. EMBRACE YOUR LIFE


“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel


loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” ~ Dalai Lama


“Unexpected kindness is the most


powerful, least costly, and most under- rated agent of human change.” ~ Bob Kerrey


I challenge you to a 30-day kindness


feast! Doesn’t that sound better that setting a resolution to diet? Each day in January do at least one random act of kindness. Keep a journal – it will be fun to go back and remember them and it will keep you on track if you have to record them at the end of each day. A random act of kindness is anything


you unexpectedly do for someone else – it can be holding the door for someone, paying for someone behind you in the drive thru, or scraping the ice off a neigh- bor’s car. We are all connected and this con- nection is the clearest during these acts. The more you delight another the more delightful you become. So be alert for your daily opportunity


to do a radically kind act and see how much kindness flows back into your daily life.


1. Commit to doing at least one random act of kindness every day in January. 2. Write down your acts in a journal.


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“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss.” ~ Jodi Picoult


“You don’t know when you’ve hit a peak until you’re coming down. And you don’t know when you’ve hit a trough


until you’re climbing out. It’s all good.” ~ David Brent


When you flip a coin do you think that heads is good but tails is bad? No, they are just different sides of the same coin. But you need both sides to make the coin so they both serve a purpose. Too often we assign value to our life experiences. If this happens then it’s good but if that happens it will be bad. But we need dark to appreciate light and weak- ness to produce strength. They are just pairs. Both are needed equally to turn the wheel of life. So embrace everything. If you are go-


ing through a difficult time then appreciate the gifts this event is bringing you, and know that this too will pass. If you are at the top of your game then appreciate all the gifts this event is bringing you, and know this too shall pass. And so the wheel turns and turns and turns.


1. How do you perceive the events in your life right now? 2. What are the gifts hidden in this pro- cess? 3. What type of support do you need to help you embrace what is?


3. At the end of the month re-read your entries and notice how much happier you feel because of your actions.


11. LOVE WITH WILD ABANDON


“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” ~ Barbara De Angelis


“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama Love with wild abandon. Just love


more when you get into a tight spot. Love more when someone is rude to you. Just love more for no reason. How, you might ask? By adding in a


healthy dose of compassion. When we put ourselves in another’s shoes then we can open our hearts to them. If that guy in the checkout line is rude to you, you have 2 choices – get angry or be compassionate. We all know how to get angry but if


you want to do it differently then remind yourself you don’t know what he has gone through today. Maybe he is scared because he was just laid off from his job. Or maybe he is angry because his wife just an- nounced she is leaving. You have no idea what another is struggling with at that moment so extend some wiggle room and open up your heart. Smile instead of scowling, that smile might just be the one thing that shifts everything for them.


1. When you feel yourself getting agi- tated with another remember to pause and react compassionately toward them. 2. When you feel yourself getting agi- tated or angry with yourself remember to pause and react compassionately to- ward yourself. 3. Reach out to someone to help you expand your capability for compassion and love.


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