Love Your People
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Part of the problem is the eggshells.
We’ve laid them out around ourselves and become worried about stepping on those that others have laid around themselves.
Some of us (all of us at one time or another) have forgotten our interdependence and obligation to other people. We’ve put ourselves (our comfort, our hearts, our minds) at the center of our universe (our universe?).
I want to encourage you to Love Your People.
Who are your people? Everyone who’s important to you… your family… your friends… your colleagues… your customers, patients, team, students. These are your people (and you’re theirs).
And love? It’s care.
And care? It’s attention and contribution (what you give, what you do). It’s kindness, patience, generosity, and truth. It’s encouraging, apologetic, forgiving, and thankful.
We’ve let too much get between us (each other) and the reasons we’re here. We’ve allowed ourselves to slip into a state of busy distraction – seeking the complex instead of embracing the simple. It’s time to stop going through the motions with our days (hours, minutes). We need to give more and enjoy more.
“The meaning of love is not to be confused with some sentimental outpouring. Love is something much deeper than emotional bosh.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American civil rights leader
“How do I love my people?”
You know how.
“But specifically. How?”
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Loving others gives a sense of freedom. It creates confidence and the ability to do that which is good. The positivity that grows within ur that comes from loving, helping and seeing to others needs gives meaning to life. Loving it. Stay well All.
Thanks, Patrick!
Sam,
Your stuff rocks,
happy holiday
I am buying the book!
Love is so powerful!! It can mend 30 year grudges, save lives, create success, and so much more. The world needs to emphasize the importance of LOVE and it’s impact on others.
Love your peeps, Elizabeth.
This is so timely for me. I am trying to extend service recovery to all aspects of my life-this is the problem, this is our fix and be done with it, move on to the the next. It’s the eggshell’s that get in my way, and probably everyone else’s.
I am cleaning up as many of my eggshells as I can and I am revving my engine…
i love loving people mostly in times of loneliness but i am always worried if people really understand my kind of love, that is if it really made an impact in their life. pls.what should i do?
The timing of this is perfect. We get so tied up in what we are doing we forget everyone else is human too. Instead of yelling and complaining, we need to pick up the pieces and fix the problem; then move on to the next task as a team not as an individual.
This was much needed this morning. Thank you.
Thank you Sam! I just ordered a large quantity of the booklet for enclosures in my client Christmas cards, but the immediate relevance is to a personal relationship that has gotten so off track because of my own deference to eggshells. There is no love where there is dishonesty — and all betrayal is a form of self-betrayal. Thank you for the generous reminder, that is I am to be loving, I must be true, and must care more about myself in relationship to others than the attachments that seem be so hard to break.