📅 Thought for today:
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‘Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.’
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— Diana, Princess of Wales
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#thoughtfortoday #kindness #giving #gift #expectation #reward
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Have you ever done a kindness and it has gone unnoticed?
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Maybe you went the extra mile for a client, your employer, or your boss, and they didn’t acknowledge it in any way. Maybe even repaid your kindness with an unkindness – a harsh word, or an unkind act?
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Why should we be kind to people who do not act kindly, who are self-centred or mean?
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In moments when these thoughts swirl around in your mind, you can try to separate your expectation from the act.
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To be kind in expectation of reward in some form – even something as simple as a word of thanks – undermines your act for you.
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So give the gift of kindness, as it is also a gift for you, it reminds you what kind of person you are. And let go of the judgement about whether someone “deserves” kindness – they probably need it whether they realise it or not.
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Giving kindness makes us kind, judgement and expectation do not.
