Maya Angelou said: “They will never remember what you told them or what you did. But they will always remember how you made them feel.”
Every moment, we have a chance to have encounters with our clients, with our co-workers, with their children in a way that makes them feel better about themselves.
How we feel about ourselves impacts how we make others feel about themselves.
How we bring joy into the room matters because we’re either breathing life into life or sucking it out. We are never a neutral event.
We have a choice. We can make sure other people feel better because we choose to bring joy to the conversation, talking about possibilities as opposed to what’s wrong, moving things through quickly, and celebrating the successes along the way.
Listen, it’s easy to find things that are wrong. I’m very capable of doing it.
I am not talking from the mountain here as someone who is capable of always being in this place, but I do know that my life goes better and that I make other people’s lives better when I sincerely make an attempt to breathe life into life, to bring joy in my heart, and to make sure that I’m thinking about bringing joy into their heart at the same time.
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