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ss as something i don t have to conserve or limit i m able to give more freely the second thing i was reflecting on was one of the fundamentals i used to teach in my former company it was called practice a ness as a way of life this fundamental is about having intense pride in the quality of what i do and making sure that my work reflects the highest standard of which i m capable on days when i m tired or less motivated it s my passion for a ness that pushes me to still deliver a high quality talk or to provide my very best thinking to a leader that i m coaching or to a company for which i m consulting while the audience might not perceive it as less than my best i would know and that s really what a ness is about a deeply personal commitment to excellence even if no one were to know but me posted by david at 8 44 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels a ness abundance fundamentals intentional acts of kindness kindness random acts of kindness thursday july 11 2013 a bruegger s kindness story i know it s been a few months since i last posted an update to this kindness blog for those wondering where i ve been the answer is pretty much everywhere just in the past 3 months i ve done work in orlando ft lauderdale kansas city dallas akron buffalo omaha philadelphia ny city seattle miami washington dc chicago providence atlanta and phoenix to name a few i ve continued to practice acts of kindness though haven t made it a priority to do so without missing a single day and obviously i haven t written much however something happened today that i thought was worth sharing and hopefully it will get me writing again more frequently i was in phoenix for the past several days giving a couple of talks and visiting my sister and my parents before leaving for home i decided to get some of my favorite bruegger s bagels to bring back to nj we no longer have any bruegger s anywhere near us and so i try to pick some up anytime i m traveling to a city in which they still exist i called them this morning and ordered 2 dozen honey grain bagels to be picked up around 9 00 on my way to the airport though i hadn t yet been to that particular shop the directions were easy and the exit was literally right on my way somehow though i must have been daydreaming and completely missed the exit before i knew it i was arriving at the car rental return for the airport and i didn t have time to go back and find the bruegger s and still make my flight while disappointed about the bagels my bigger quandary was feeling bad about having placed an order and then stiffing the store after a few minutes of thought i decided that i should call the store and give them my credit card and tell them to charge me for the bagels anyway but the story doesn t end there when i called they put me through to the catering manager a woman named felicia upon hearing the situation felicia asked me what time my flight was then she suggested that she could drive the bagels to the airport and meet me in front of the terminal from which i was departing sure enough that s what she did i m actually writing this post on the flight and looking forward to having plenty of great bagels to enjoy over the coming weeks as i reflect on what took place i have a few observations first i was thinking about integrity i sometimes think of integrity as doing the right thing even when no one s looking no one except for me would have ever known if i never paid for the bagels i ordered they didn t even have my last name and i could perhaps justify it by assuming that the bagels would eventually be sold throughout the day still it didn t feel right integrity i think is most often a very personal thing the other interesting observation was how my kindness doing the right thing was so readily reciprocated i certainly had no expectation at all that the bagels would be delivered to me at the airport in fact it hadn t even occurred to me as an option but as i observed throughout the past year kindness is contagious it s pretty cool to see i ll try to be more regular in my writing in the coming months despite my continued crazy travel schedule posted by david at 4 31 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bagels bruegger s integrity intentional acts of kindness kindness random acts of kindness wednesday april 17 2013 some thoughts on boston i ve been traveling extensively lately and have not taken the time to post stories with the regularity i had hoped a luxury i m granting myself after officially completing my challenge on the last day of 2012 however the events surrounding monday s tragic bombing at the boston marathon have really compelled me to reflect and i wanted to share some of those thoughts here when i wrote my year end summary on january 1st i listed five key lessons i learned from my year of kindness one of the most significant of these lessons was that there is much more kindness in the world than we think my experience was that the world was filled with amazing acts of kindness but that their stories were not told as frequently as were the stories of crime evil and tragedy the disproportionate amount of airtime that negative stories get can cause us to have a distorted view of how most people really are so how do i make sense of this week s events in light of my observation about human nature for me the aftermath of the marathon was and continues to be a shining example of exactly what i had concluded while many will point to this senseless tragedy and wonder what s wrong with our world i am as heartened by the incredible stories of compassion in the bomb s aftermath as i am heartbroken by the tragedy itself for a variety of reasons this event impacted me in a more personal way than many of the horrible things you see or read about in the news it might be because of my role as a part of the running community and a previous boston marathon competitor myself or maybe because i had friends who were there but it really hit me hard i was returning to my hotel in florida listening to the details on the news and i literally sat in the parking lot and wept this is pretty rare for me and yet within hours i was hearing so many stories of caring and compassion shown by emergency workers healthcare professionals race officials fellow athletes spectators local residents and more there was an overwhelming display of generosity on the part of so many people eager to do whatever they could to assist and care for those in need while i don t have the words to describe or understand why some crazy individual would hurt so many innocent people it was likely one person it now appears balance that against the thousands and thousands of people in boston and around the country who are showing solidarity in their kindness and it only reaffirms for me the notion that there is far more kindness in the world than we often recognize beyond the exceptional events that follow tragedies like this week i continue to see lots of examples of kindness that people all around me show to each other every single day it s all around us if we re looking for it posted by david at 10 53 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels boston marathon intentional acts of kindness kindness random acts of kindness wednesday april 3 2013 helping travelers i was coming home from orlando yesterday and as i navigated my way through the orlando airport i overheard a young family trying to figure out how to get to the gate from which their plane was departing since i knew the answer to their question i spoke up and explained the directions to them this is one of those very simple things that i might have ignored in the past while it s true that i overheard their conversation and it s also true that i knew the information about which they were confused it would have been just as easy to stay inside my own little bubble rather than offering to help since i tend to be a more cerebral person anyway my natural inclination is to be on my own path in my own world and not to break outside of it for strangers in fact this is one of the tendencies or habits i wanted to work on changing through the 369 consecutive days of kindness last year i wanted to learn to extend myself more especially to strangers and to find ways to spread more kindness hopefully yesterday s small act was an indication that i m making those changes posted by david at 8 48 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels intentional acts of kindness kindness random acts of kindness friday march 29 2013 pretzels for the workers every easter the volunteer firefighters in our town sell spring flowers as a way of raising additional funds you can see them in front of the different firehouses doing a brisk business if the weather is good as i was coming home from a kindness talk i gave to a rotary club this afternoon i passed the firehouse and saw the activity it reminded me that i had intended to swing by our soft pretzel store on main street and buy a bunch of warm pretzels for the workers but by this point i was already past main street and on my way home nevertheless i doubled back and returned to the pretzel store and bought 20 of pretzels fresh out of the oven then i parked a couple of blocks from the firehouse and went to deliver them having lived in town as long as i have i know many of the firefighters and was glad to greet them personally with my gift small tokens like these are a nice way to show some appreciation for the sacrifices these people make it s the least i can do posted by david at 7 39 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels intentional acts of kindness kindness random acts of kindness soft pretzels monday march 25 2013 tips i ve been a little remiss in my writing lately so i ll try to get back on track here it was a rather wet snowy sleety kind of day in nj today and i felt bad as i pulled into a gas station in town to fill up my car nj is one of those few states where you can t pump your own gas so an attendant had to stand out in the nasty weather filling people s cars for them that can t be much fun on a day like today anyway when i was done and the young man was handing me my receipt i thanked him by giving him a mcdonald s gift card he was really surprised and appreciative those who know me well know that i hate tips it s not that i don t appreciate what people do rather it s that i hate the unknown aspect of tips you never know what s expected what s reasonable what s cheap etc i d rather just be told what the price of an item is and have it include any and all service or better yet i d love it if there were a clearly communicated scale that we all understood with appropriate amounts for poor average good and outstanding service then i could rate the service i received and compensate appropriately as much as i hate the places where tips are expected i enjoy the opportunity to give a little something like today where it s not expected this gives me a better chance to really make a difference in someone s day i suspect that gas station attendant doesn t expect nor does he get many tips he likely went home tonight feeling pretty good with an extra bounce in his step not that the gift card was so huge but simply knowing that he was valued and appreciated my daughter is a tour guide on her college campus a couple of weeks ago she was given a 10 tip by someone who participated in one of her tours this was totally unexpected and so it had a significantly larger impact on her i don t doubt that she felt just a little bit better about life for the rest of that day that s pretty cool to be able to do that for someone posted by david at 9 49 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels intentional acts of kindness kindness random acts of kindness tips thursday march 14 2013 looking for a restaurant i stopped by our local grocery store to pick up a couple of items and as i got back into my car and prepared to start the engine i noticed a man in the car next to me had his window rolled down and seemed to be motioning to me so i got back out of my car and went to see what he wanted it seems he was waiting for his wife to finish her shopping and since he wasn t from this area he was looking for a recommendation for a place to have a nice meal i asked him a few questions to get a sense for the kind of restaurant he wanted and then was able to give him a good recommendation and pretty explicit directions for how to get there isn t it strange that we re so often hesitant to ask a question of a total stranger i m not quite sure why that is but for some reason most of us tend to feel uncomfortable approaching a complete stranger i was glad that this man apparently had no such discomfort because it allowed me to be of help and perhaps at some level it also allowed me to show that most strangers are more than willing to be plenty helpful if we only ask it was fun for me to help and he got what he was looking for posted by david at 10 37 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels intentional acts of kindness kindness random acts of kindness wednesday march 13 2013 the extra step i was having dinner with someone the other night and our conversation led me to mention a couple of my favorite books on the topic we were discussing my friend hadn t read the books in question but wrote them down because he was eager to check them out i believe he was sincere in his desire to read them though my experience tells me that life has a way of getting in the way of our best intentions i also know from experience that i m more likely to read a book that s been sent to me than one i don t currently own and have to go out and purchase borrow so i went ahead and bought the books on amazon i do love amazon and had them sent to my friend for his enjoyment taking that one extra step to send the books rather than simply mentioning them can make all the difference in the world that whole experience got me thinking about how often there s one little extra step that can make the difference in so many situations do we tell someone how to do something or do we actually coach them through doing it do we give someone directions or do we lead them to where they need to go to we utter a simple thanks or do we send a nice handwritten note do we say we should get together sometime or do we pull out our calendars and make a date in almost every situation it seems to me there is always more that can be done to help it s an interesting challenge to consider that thought and to take on doing that extra step posted by david at 9 59 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels intentional acts of kindness kindness random acts of 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