Here are my shares to help you keep your focus on elevating to your best self.
🥰 Kindness is Contagious, Pass it Around!
Are you familiar with the buddy bench? It’s a bench, typically located at a playground, where kids can sit to signal that they are feeling lonely or would like someone to play with them.
What if we created a common signal for adults to use to communicate when we could use a little extra support without voicing it? Any ideas for how you could create something like this that we could spread around?
🦋 Curated Shares to Inspire “Better”
- Conscious leadership starts with self-awareness and awareness of your impact on others. Nicholas Whitacker, co-founder of ChangingWork.org, talks about his experiences coaching leaders into honest self-discovery.
- 🌟Do Good Spotlight: Give an Hour ⌚For every therapist in the U.S., there are about 350 people in need of mental health support. With such an inundated system, there has to be another more attainable solution. Give an Hour started by therapists volunteering an hour of their time to support those in need. Now, they work on informing the public with wellness ambassadors and peer-to-peer groups to fill in the gaps. Learn more about them through this video or check out their website.
- Shahmeen Sadiq is conducting an online workshop called “Having Difficult Conversations Well” on July 15th. It’s an interactive event where she’ll guide participants through planning and practicing for a difficult conversation they want to have, but have been putting off. Learn more here.
- Roughly 40% of millennials and GenZ workers have side jobs according to new research reported in The Wall Street Journal. What’s more, most of them have them out of necessity, not passion, as tended to be the 2nd job motivator until recently. Does knowing this influence your perspective on your team and their energy for their full-time gig? Full article here.
- Being nice versus being kind. There is a difference. Here’s a quick comparison.
⏳Until Next Time…
The world’s only given us one of you–please take good care of yourself so we can all reap the benefits of you being here! ☮️
Niki