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One of my fave websites is Zen Habits. This site offers all kinds of really sensible and thought provoking advice on how to live your life better. Todays post is especially interesting to me as it speaks of the importance and personal benefits derived from giving. Here are a couple of points that I like:
It works the same way with our happiness, too. When I become overly focused on my goals and my feelings and my desires, I start to feel down. When I become focused on myself, it’s easy to think that everything is about me. But it’s not. And when I’m so focused on myself, I start to become easily offended by others. I think that others do things that I don’t like because of me, when they’re really just doing those things because of themselves.
And here are some additional tips from the article that I would like to adopt in my life:
- The best way to be interesting is to be interested in others.
- You gain more physical energy by burning energy when you exercise.
- The way to be loved is to be lovable.
- When you seek to understand, others are more likely to want to understand you back.
- By helping others, they are more inclined to help you in return.
I am going to print out these points and post them at my work desk so that I can be reminded to put these principles into practice. Why not try them out for yourself?
Thumbs way up!