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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. Annie Lennox – singer
If you’ve been anywhere near the Internet, or the news, today you can’t possibly have missed that it’s International Kindness Day. I don’t know about you but I try to be kind to people, ‘stand in their shoes’, ‘treat people as you’d like to be treated yourself’… I don’t always get kindness back, but hey that’s their problem NOT mine. But, what I do know is being kind, helps me be a better person. It also helps when the world around us looks dark, whether it’s Trump, Brexit or people breaking laws.
13 November 2017 – Spread kindness like confetti
One of the best things I found today was the 2017 Kindness Advent Calendar from Helen at Make Today Make Today Happy. Have a look!
One of the mantras you often hear, is to list things you’re grateful for, this can be very difficult to do when you’re in the pit of depression or crippled by anxiety. There’s an organisation that helped me through the dark times, The Blurt Foundation – they know alot about #self-care too.
Daily Gratitude
Today I’m grateful for:
- My Chap and my family all around the world.
- My friends some I’ve known for decades and some arrived in my life more recently.
- In particular, my Women’s Institute pals most of whom I’ve only known a few years. They’re awesome, inspiring women – come along if you’re local Cottonopolis Women’s Institute – Ancoats, Manchester.
- Have a look at our national HQ for a local group – we’re not what you think we are about. Alleviating Loneliness is one of our resolutions for 2018.
- The NHS
- Yoga and mindfulness
- And all the people in my phone – most of whom I’ll never meet who help me – The Sparkle crew who are a lovely bunch as are the Rock and Roll Bride team and the ladies who love irregular choice shoes.
So my #365daysofselfcare for today:
- is to help some people out in the forums with queries about things I know about (gardening, wedding queries especially about getting a non-tradional dress made, job applications, health issues).
- And virtual hugs for people to far away for a real hug – I hug by husband every day too.
- and I’m going to tell people about the Kindness Advant Calender.
And in case you were wondering? our confetti was lavender from our garden 🙂
So how are you going to spread kindness like confetti?
Carpe Diem
Love Bec xx xx xx
7 Comments
Marianna
16/11/2017 at 10:36 pmI love this blog and the mantra ‘spread kindness like confetti’! It’s sad how we need to sometimes think about actively being kind – especially when it seems the world is full of doom and gloom. I recently started a mindfulness class and at the start of each, we have to list 6 things which we feel proud or happy about. While it isn’t directly a sign of kindness to others, it helps us be kind to ourselves which in turn (I hope) makes us feel kinder to others. It’s a tricky one – but something I’m seriously trying to do!
Marianna
Bec
22/11/2017 at 4:56 pmHi Marianna – thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed the post. Yes I agree with you writing positive/proud of things helps. and I definitely agree with you that it helps to #bekind. I’m v pleased to hear you’re enjoying your mindfulness classes. I started doing mindfulness a few years ago along side yoga (which I’ve done for over 10 years), it’s really helped me during tough times. I’m going to write more about mindfulness another time. Hope you’re having a a good week. love bec xx
thefinerthingsclubsite
16/11/2017 at 11:13 pmThis is such a lovely, uplifting post! It’s so much easier to focus on the bad rather than the good, to fall into bad habits and overlook the positives. Blogs like this really help remind you of what’s important. A great read!
Sarah Catherine x
https://thefinerthingsclubsite.com/
Bec
22/11/2017 at 4:51 pmthank you Sarah Catherine – I’m glad you enjoyed reading it. yes looking to the positives as much as I can. I definitely helps me to write things down – I’ll blog about that another time 🙂 hope you’re having a good week love Bec xx
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17/11/2017 at 6:53 pmYour site is very engaging. Thank you for sharing it with all
of us. I was searching for some inspiration, and Im glad I
found
it here. Im having trouble blogging about food.
Sheesh,
hopefully your inspirational blog will help me get there 🙂
Bec
22/11/2017 at 6:32 pmThank you very much – I’m pleased you liked my blog. I think the best thing to do is, write about things you’re passionate about and/or help people out with information. Good luck blogging love bec xx
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