Do you default to generosity, especially when under stress?

 If you’re like me, there are more moments of stress these days that keep popping up. Notice how I didn’t say “more bad days” popping up because if you’ve heard me speak before you know “There’s no such thing as a bad day, only bad moments that people nurse all day long.” When those moments pop up, is your default generosity or kindness?  Yesterday, I had a very simple task that turned into frustration and stress because of a glitch in my GPS that took me 30 minutes in the wrong direction to my client meeting!  For some reason, when I clicked on the text from my client for their address and sent it to maps, the system added a word. Instead of going to South Rainbow, I was sent to South Hidden Rainbow.  Really? Now, it’s my fault that I didn’t immediately call my client to confirm the cross street. I just relied on my GPS and an hour late, eventually made it to my client – 5 minutes away.  But then, something magical happened.  I gave my client and her assistant a box of chocolates I brought back from Paris, and copies of my book “Is There a Hole In Your Bucket List?”, my motivational goal-setting book. I defaulted to a small gesture of generosity and kindness with no expectation of anything in return. Much to my surprise, my client picked up my book and thought it would be a great attendee gift for the large women’s conference that I am keynoting in August. (NOT a conference of large women…a leadership conference for women that will have a large audience…oh you know what I mean!). As a result of me offering to sign the contract in person instead of emailing it, and a result of me bringing an unexpected copy of my book, she put in an order for 800 books! I’m super psyched that 800 more people will have access to motivation on how to patch the holes in their bucket lists so they can let go of fear, negativity and self-doubt. This turned out to be an AWESOME day!  

 

So enjoy how I explain it in today’s Front-Row Friday video.