Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about the misconception that kindness means being a door mat. It doesn’t. Kindness is having human regard. That doesn’t mean that you’re always giving to others or always saying yes when asked. In fact, kindness requires you to have human regard for yourself and that often requires you to say no. But for some reason there is this myth that nice people have to be people pleasers.
Continue reading “Kindness with Boundaries”Tag: kindness
Embracing the Spirit of Kindness
Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about the idea of embracing the spirit of kindness. It is a personal philosophy that I live by that I feel has made my life a lot better. When I was an adolescent, I made the decision that I wasn’t going to be the person that I was becoming. I decided that I was going to be someone better then I was. That was my first step towards this philosophy.
Continue reading “Embracing the Spirit of Kindness”Autograph
Acts of Kindness
Give Yourself Grace
Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to remind you to give yourself grace and I want to talk about what that actually means.
Part of being human is making mistakes and failing to meet our own expectations. Most of the time, we are our own toughest critics. This is often because we pay more attention to the things that we have done in a less then ideal fashion rather then focusing on the things that we are doing well. Our brains are programmed that way so that we can improve and grow. However, this can also become a trap where we become entrenched in our failings and begin to believe that we are not enough or lack value.
Continue reading “Give Yourself Grace”Kindness and Compassion
Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about the ways that you can become more kind and compassionate in your everyday life. Because the thing is that these are skills that we can learn and get better at, just like riding a bike.
Continue reading “Kindness and Compassion”Be Kind
The Myth of Happiness
Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about the myth of happiness. This is a topic that is really dear to my heart because I wasted a lot of years trying to be happy. And the truth is that I never found any kind of semblance of peace in my life until I gave on the myth of happiness.
Continue reading “The Myth of Happiness”