Kindness Leads to Happiness

Can mean people become kind? Can a heart be warmed? Is there a soft side to everyone that just simply must be revealed?

Can you fake it till you make it?

Kindness can be learned and as our mothers taught us, practice makes perfect. Try practicing random acts of kindness. Start with people standing in waiting lines with you. Notice something good about someone and just say it. It doesn't have to be dramatic. "That scarf looks great on you." "I really like your haircut." "Very handsome tie. Reply to the checkout person, "Thanks for asking me how I am. How are you?" Let someone behind you with 2 items cut in front of you and insist they accept your offer.

I thought I had more than enough cash for 2 coffees but I was 72 cents short. A lady sitting at a table in Starbucks was watching me and she stood up walked over and gave me a dollar bill. I said, "Oh, I couldn't." She said,"Oh but you can if you let yourself" so I did and I liked it. Two days later, same Starbucks, there I was and the woman ahead of me in line was short $1.20 and as she put her cookie back I returned the favor that was paid to me and I liked it.

I have since then committed to a minimum of 2 kind acts a day and have purposefully thought of ways to say nice things so they will not seem staged. Toasts are a great way to say things that you think eveyone knows but need to hear again. "Tonight I want to say thanks for being such a supportive husband and for understanding when I need to be out 2 nights a week building my business." Gratitude, reinforcement and future acceptance can all be accomplished at the same time. "Thank you for always being a good friend to me": this statement can seem corny when randomly shared, but over an ice tea at lunch with the clink of two glass, it is endearing.

Never be the person who is described as treating strangers better than the ones they are supposed to love the most. Kindness leads to happiness.

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