Many people benefit when we strive to become our best
I have yet to meet someone who says, “Nope. I’m not a kind person and I have no intention of changing.” We might agree that we have a little work to be done in the kindness area, but generally people seem to think they are doing a pretty good job of treating others well. In
The Kindness Podcast Episode 28: The Kindness Rocks Project
Megan Murphy lives with open hands. Instead of clenching her fingers around her stuff, her ideas, her time, she greets people palms up, freely giving what she can to help another along the path of life. Isn’t that a beautiful way of living? Certainly there are rocks along Megan’s path, but most of them are
What do you do with your What ifs?
I was getting out of the shower the other morning when a sharp little pain shot through my right breast. For anyone keeping track, my right breast is the healthy one. It’s the left breast that was removed three years ago after a cancer diagnosis. The towel caught my skin wrong and I flinched. My
Blanket project ties high school friends together
They say there are ties that bind, things that happen in our lives that leave us forever connected and intertwined with others. But what happens when decades begin to deteriorate our communication with those people? As Caryl Kiser from southeastern Ohio shares, those ties not only continue to hold, they grow stronger with each knot
The Kindness Podcast Episode 27: Center for Healthy Minds
What are you doing right this second? Reading this, right? But really, where is your mind? Are you in the moment, engaged and thinking about each black and white word on the screen? Or are you wandering? Research tells us that people are not paying attention to what they’re doing 47% of the time. Half
Guest Blog: Don’t Be Afraid to Get Your Princess Dress Wet
Jason Kotecki is an artist and a speaker and (as evidenced by his blog below) a gifted writer. His jam is teaching people how to fight “adultitis” — that version of adulthood that says we have to be serious and play it safe and follow a bunch of made up rules. That’s a lesson I’m
A single act of kindness spans states and decades
Our lives often intersect for a reason, but isn’t it amazing when we they do, and we actually notice? Two men, one from Twin Valley, Minn., and the other from Loveland, Colo., have never met in person, but their paths crossed 20 years ago, leading to a beautiful act of kindness today. Here is their
