Tag: caring

• Prioritize People

  Prioritize people.

  No matter what your principles are, caring about others must be a priority.

  If not, your priorities are misaligned.

  At the end of the day, your relationships define your life.

  Your accomplishments mean nothing if you have helped no one along the way.

  Your legacy is made through the people you have touched and changed in your lifetime.

  Prioritize people over power, property, and prestige, and your life will have a long-lasting sense of meaning and purpose.

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  PRIORITIZE PEOPLE
  By Robert Van Valkenburgh
  Meditations of a Gentle Warrior

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  June 16, 2024

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• Reasons To Be Kind

  Look for reasons to be kind.

  Put in more effort than is required of you.

  Be present and attentive.

  Care deeply.

  Listen.

  Give generously of your time.

  Be your sensitive self unapologetically and without regret.

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  February 15, 2024

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• To Do Good

  Simply because you go out of your way for someone, does not mean you will be rewarded for doing so.

  There are no prizes given out for thoughtfulness.

  You do not get bonus points for caring.

  If acknowledgement is your motivation for being kind or generous, you are going to be sorely disappointed.

  If you are going to be a thoughtful, generous, and caring person, do so for the sake of being thoughtful, generous, and caring.

  This is not easy because we all want to be acknowledged for our efforts, but it is necessary if you want to be happy.

  Do good to do good.

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  February 13, 2024

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• Bonds Of Humanity

  Do what you can to help others and you will find that your life is better for it.

  You obviously cannot give more than you have.

  Give what you can.

  Do so generously and graciously.

  If you do this consistently and without expectation for reward or recognition, you will be changed by it.

  You will find that your life has a new sense of meaning and purpose.

  Where there was once dissatisfaction, there will now be a sense of joy and contentment.

  By fulfilling the needs of others, you will find that you are fulfilled in return.

  It is not necessarily the giving, but the connection that is created between you and others when selfishness is set aside, that changes you.

  These bonds of humanity are transformative and, in many ways, they are all we really have.

  Forget about your desires and your fears for a moment.

  Open your heart and mind, and outstretch your hand.

  You have the ability to uplift others.

  By doing so, you, yourself, will be uplifted also.

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  October 31, 2023

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• Understanding To Be Understood

  It is easier to understand others than it is to get them to understand you.

  Trying to be understood can be an extremely frustrating venture.

  Not only that, but it is also very difficult to accomplish.

  The more you feel the need to be understood, it seems, the more elusive it becomes.

  Trying to be understood can be like attempting to catch a feather in a windstorm or, more accurately, attempting to get someone else to catch a feather in a windstorm.

  This does not mean that you cannot get some of your ideas, emotions, or experiences across to someone else.

  You can, but you are more complex than even the sum total of these.

  It is far easier, and often more fruitful, to be the one who understands.

  Be the one who listens and actually hears, and who observes and actually sees.

  Be the person who cares and who feels for others.

  This will give you the connection you crave and it will actually help you to be more understood yourself.

  By understanding where others are coming from, what motivates them, and even what frightens them, you begin to understand how to communicate with them, and to communicate, in the truest sense of the word, is to be understood.

  Understanding others, therefore, is the gateway to being understood yourself.

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  October 6, 2023

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