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We are living through outrageous upheaval on every front: climate, business, politics, religion, family, friends—you name it. Changes are happening—big time.
Much isn’t good, and some people want to deal with it by ignoring what’s happening or saying it’s not that bad. Avoidance is never the answer… if we stay strong and work together to elevate kindness, we all win.
But how do you stay strong and focused without getting exhausted?
You change your lens.
So please, stop what you’re doing, get something to drink, and consider this your “me time.” Listen to the brilliant National Geographic photographer DeWitt Jones tell you how to change your lens. Special thanks to Jenny Haase for sharing this TEDTalk with me.
🦋 Content Shares to Inspire Workplace Culture Shifts
Each week, I share stories to help you see the effects of negative workplaces and the value of connected ones. By fostering our best selves in our work lives, we gain strengths that benefit the rest of our lives, too.
- 31% of workers are “actively sabotaging” their employers’ attempts to integrate AI into workflow. It’s probably not for the reasons you would guess. The top reason surprised me, how about you?
- Ugh… worker confidence is now even lower than it was at the beginning of the pandemic. It’s currently at 21%. Even more evidence that we need to change the paradigms around how we work, how we lead, and how we grow our businesses.
- Here’s a mindset switch that will pay huge dividends: treat your manager like a client….
- Is a shorter work week an option for your company? Pavithra Mohan has thoughts via Fast Company on LinkedIn.
- Want to focus better? Make bringing yourself back to center a habit that gets launched when you feel your stress mounting. This animated LinkedIn post shows you how.
- Time management guru James Clear asks, “Which distractions in your life have become disguised as priorities?” Answering that can reset your world in a snap. Try it.
✍️ Increase Workplace Kindness With Our Downloadable Planner
A Better Paradigm’s journal/planner helps you set intentions for bringing more kindness to your workplace and reflecting on each week as it wraps up. Each week has a prompt to help you think about a different aspect of workplace compassion. Give it a try. It’s free and designed specifically for people who want to make their workplaces better.
🖋 Noteworthy: Kindness.org
Kindness.org is all about adding conscious compassion to the world. Via their website and other channels, they provide tips, action items, a podcast, a book, Be Kind: A Year of Kindness, One Week at a Time, and more. You can even take their quiz to see how kind you are compared with others. See what they’re doing and why A Better Paradigm and Kindness.org’s missions are so aligned.
📖 Book of the Moment: Conversations Worth Having
Cheri Torres and Jackie Stavros do a wonderful job helping us to understand the power of direct conversation, especially when we’re hesitant. By leveraging Appreciative Inquiry—a widely-used change method that focuses on identifying what’s working and building on it rather than just trying to fix what’s broken—we can work with others for consistently positive outcomes. For more information and to purchase the book, click the link below.
Personal story: I learned about this years ago and implemented it as part of a pivot in my leadership style. It was a runaway success that I’m happy to credit to the principles I learned in Conversations Worth Having.
🌟 Do Good Spotlight: Peptoc
Dial Peptoc at 707-998-8410 to hear a pep talk from kindergarteners who are doing their part to elevate kindness.
🎉 Just for Fun
I couldn’t wait to share this one with you. If your life were a movie, what would the audience be screaming at you to do next? What are you waiting for?
⏳Until Next Time…
There’s no issue next week; I’ll be back with the April 10th issue. For my entire life, April 10 has been a lucky day. One year, it brought me my son. Most years, it’s something not quite that exciting, but awesome nonetheless.
Until then, stay well, stay focused, and stay the kindness course. We’re counting on you!
Niki