Welcome, fellow members of the Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching Academy, to a place to share observations and questions.
Today we talked about activities that can increase satisfaction in the Helping area, i.e., helping others in need or helping to make your community a better place to live. One way to come up with ideas for Helping is to review one’s personal goals and values.
I particularly like the following snippets:
Helping and service to others is a major untapped source of joy, inner peace, and contentment. (p.264)
An effective helping routine tends to be small + simple + habitual
I have a good friend who was an eagle scout. He still has the boy scout service coin that his grandfather used and he uses it himself every day. He puts it in his left pocket first thing in the morning and shifts it to his right pocket when he has done a good deed for the day. He gave me one as a gift because he knew I admired it.
I have another friend who puts “Help someone” on his to-do list every morning.
The much maligned Pollyanna was an expert in this facet of life. The book, Pollyanna, might be a good text for people thinking about helping as a source of satisfaction.
The discussion ended with this quotation from Mother Theresa:
We cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
