Reach Out...

Sometimes we come across people who are purely out for themselves. Teamwork doesn’t apply, nor does anything other than the absolution of responsibility. 

Doesn’t matter what is going on, their blinkered approach and selfishness will deter them from doing anything to help others. Often these people will be judgemental, quick to throw others to the lions because they think it makes them look better. But all the time, all they are doing is portraying themselves as the untrustworthy and pretentious. 

Without doubt, we will all find ourselves at some point in our lives being judged or scored by those who either don’t know or appreciate what we are doing, going through, or up against. But for them it is easy to make little of others, whilst playing some kind of victim themselves as a smoke screen for their actions. 

The thing is, we are all busy. We all have stresses and situations that can be difficult to deal with day to day, but it’s how we carry ourselves - and more importantly how we deal with and treat others is what sets us aside. No matter how stressful your day may be, know that others may have more to deal with. This doesn’t give any of us the right to be obnoxious or pretentious. What it does give us is the reason to reach out. To reach out and try to help, no matter what we are dealing with ourselves at that moment in time. 

Empathy is the key to success. Once you show empathy you can build a connection that goes beyond empty words. You gain a connection because of trust and in turn you become an ally. When you gain this level of trust you gain everything, because you then build a network of people who will do everything they can to help you, just because they know you’d do exactly the same for them. This is what life should be like. 

Ok, so I’m not naive enough to think that this is going to happen every day, and with every person you encounter. But I am confident enough to say that if you conduct yourself in this manner, you will benefit others and in return benefit yourself. A real positive side effect of this is the network of people in your life will become smaller - but the ones you lose aren’t worth worrying about. 

Be you. Be the kind of person that the world will benefit from just by your every day. 

Call it being a people person,

Call it being an empath,

Call it being being supportive.

Call it what you will... 

Me, I call it not being a better person. 

Putting the ‘kind’ in mankind since 1973...

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