You can get anything you want in life if you
help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
- We all have something to give.
Most of us learn at some point in life that we need encouragement on a regular basis. We live at such hectic lifes that sometimes we feel down and discouraged. Some of us discovered the very best "recharges" for the batteries of life. It is a simple exercise.
- Help somebody else.
Think of an act of kindness you can do for someone. Then think of a specific someone for whom you could do it. Then do it. It is as simple as that.
Now, you may be wondering if such a simple action can truly result in positive personal benefit. The answer is a definite "yes". When you are thinking about your action and the person or persons for whom you will act, you forget about yourself. Self-forgetfulness is the direct opposite of self-absorption... That will just ease your negative, personal burdens.
- It is first step to healing yourself!
I don't remember the name of a movie, I saw a while ago, where a child came up with the idea of helping 3 people with the promise that each of them will help in return also, 3 other people... and so on. (resemble the piramid structure?) But in the name of good and kindness.
When you help others you really do help yourself. It is the way God designed us.
I love Zig! Thanks for posting, Arina.
Mike in Tucson
Gary : it is sad in a way how absorbed we are with our jobs and our own expectations from life that we forget about others hardship. Not helping others makes our life small and insignificant.
Mike : Thank you for reading my post.
Diane : So simple and so often forgotten
It is so rewarding to be able to help others and actually SEE how much it has helped. I could do that 24/7. However, often we cannot see how much help we have been to someone. The person you smiled at in the store this morning might have been about ready to give up on life but a simple smile told him there are still nice people around. The convenience-store clerk that you said "have a blessed day" to, instead of 'have a good one" may be questioning God, and that simple statement came at exactly the right moment and gave her hope again. We don't see these things, but they are as powerful as doing a good deed.
I know, because several years ago, I WAS that clerk who felt at the bottom, and unsure if there was any goodness and Godliness left in the world. then total strangers would smile or tell me to have a blessed day, and I realized God often speaks through us. It doesn't take anything major to have an effect on the lives of others, but it does take something major inside of us to make us want to. So let the Spirit speak through you, and trust that, somehow, you have truly helped another human being exactly when they needed it!
It's a wonderful way to live.
Here's hoping everyone walks with the intent to brighten everyone's day around them.
Melissa; Thank you for your comment. You are so true. Life would be so much better off if we'll live by the goodness of our hearts.
Robert: How can we keep in mind that clear message?
Amber : I completely understand where are you coming from... I am right now in that place, feeling the emptiness and coldness of the world. Hope to get wiser and better looking for that purpose in life: to help others like I do have everything I need and more.