Make A Positive Impact

Hi  it’s Dave here, how has your week been? 

I can’t believe that a week has gone by since I published my last piece on here – doesn’t time fly when you are having so much fun in your life? 

Amanda-Jayne Staddon CEO The Natural Approach Group
(photo by: wytchwynd photography)

I was doing some research for this post and I saw the words that are the title used as a headline about a group of people coming together to make changes for the better to the thing they were involved with.  It got me thinking about how can we go about

 

Making a Positive Impact

I believe that at some point in our lives we will all need other people's help and assistance in one way or another.

The aim of this post is to give you a few simple ways that you can make a positive impact on another person's life.  The more we do this the better our own lives will become.

These pointers are not dictates or instructions they are simply a few ideas that we can all follow.

So off we go.......

The first suggestion may seem obvious but it is surprising how few of us actually do this,

We can do things for other people that will make an impact on their lives, simply because we want to!  - the last 4 words are the important ones “Because we want to” 

It is no use doing things for people out of a sense of obligation or duty.   This will only make our actions counter-productive.

Next – we can seek to develop friendships with new people, they may have something to share with us that can have a profound effect on our life or similarly, the things we share with them may have a major effect on their lives.

Remember, a small impact on someone's life can sometimes be more effective than a large one! 

We do not have to give money.  A gesture or a kindly word will often be significant and can mean a lot to the recipient.  Give willingly and freely, expecting nothing in return and you could well be surprised by what transpires.

Here are a few examples of small things that could make a big difference

1 – hold a door open for someone who has their hands full

2 – carry a shopping bag for someone who is struggling

3 – listen to someone when they want someone to talk to

4 – share your knowledge

5 – share your time

6 – be pleasant to someone you do not know

7 – offer kind words to a work colleague or a family member

8 – commit to help someone every day

Another beneficial thing we can do that will go a long way to making an impact on someone's life is to cultivate a positive mind set –  As Tony Robbins says - this is not “Positive Thinking” like the man who looks at his weed ridden garden and says “there's no weeds, there's no weeds” expecting the weeds to miraculously disappear. 

No! we should become positive in our approach to other people, positive that we are going to make a difference to their lives.  Positive in the knowledge that despite the ups and downs that we all go through, life is good and fun if we choose to make it so.

We can pay attention to new people that we may meet along our life’s journey because they may be there to help (or teach us) as we travel along the road we call life. Do not be quick to judge, take time to form your decisions and thus stand a better chance of making the right ones.

We should be consistent and committed to making a difference, being prepared to give something that will help someone we know or do not know and while doing so enjoying the process.

By putting these few ideas into practice you and I can begin to create the “ripple effect” and as a result of this change the world as we know it.   By taking these actions we will be going some way to making it a better place for all who live here, and what is exciting about this is we will probably never know how many people our small acts of kindness will effect. 

Isn't that just great?

The photo at the top of this article is of Amanda - Jayne the CEO of The Natural Approach Group and the whole mission of T.N.A.G. is to make a positive impact and to help those less fortunate members of our society.  To find out more about their work visit their website at  

http://thenaturalapproachgroup.org

If this post has made you think about how you act, or if it has prompted any questions, then please feel free to add them as a comment in the box below or to email me:- thedavebaxter@mail.com

About Dave I am a coach; speaker; radio presenter and founder of The Blue Sky Company.  I am also a therapist and co-own a virtual light centre called The Crystal Spring.  My therapy work includes music therapy; reiki; crystal therapy

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And above all

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DAve x

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