Stay Humble

stay humble

  1. Use the response “It’s My Pleasure” when someone thanks you for doing something.
  2. Use the response “I’d be honored” when someone asks you to help them or do something with them.
  3. Listen more than you talk
  4. Count to 3 before adding to a conversation to ensure the other person is done
  5. Be willing to follow another person in conversation even if you don’t get to talk about your idea
  6. Always offer to improve someone else’s idea and give them credit
  7. Give credit for other’s ideas that you are carrying through on
  8. Ask others for the opinion of others
  9. Ask others to join conversations and contribute
  10. It’s OK to be wrong and so admit it
  11. Admit when you don’t understand or know something
  12. Appreciate others who learn something quickly and say so
  13. Be quick to apologize when you do something wrong
  14. Study moral principles
  15. Use moral principles to guide you
  16. You are God’s creation, not your own
  17. Recognize your talents as gifts, not your own ability
  18. Know how your skills have only be developed by the help of others
  19. Share your own knowledge to pass on what you have learned
  20. Pass on thanks when you receive it to those who helped you achieve what was thanked
  21. Value other people’s time as much as your own
  22. Never equate time spent with people to a dollar value
  23. Don’t boast about your achievements, let others recognize them instead
  24. Keep your goals to yourself
  25. Help other people with their goals
  26. Realize the potential in others
  27. Know that timing is everything and everyone excels at different times in life
  28. Being the 1st follower is often the best way to lead
  29. Since winning isn’t everything, you don’t have to win
  30. Recognize that you have faults
  31. Remember you are a sinner (in other words, you are no better or worse than anyone else)
  32. Ignore first impressions of people
  33. Give others the benefit of the doubt
  34. Provide positive and encouraging feedback instead of criticism
  35. Make a choice to act more humbly
  36. Practice at least one humble act each day
  37. Be grateful for successes without boasting about them
  38. Know how to accept praise with a simple thank you, don’t elaborate on it or talk more about it
  39. Recognize the individualism of others and yourself, there is no need to conform
  40. Share your core values and live them accordingly regardless of the circumstances
  41. Prioritize things in your life and rate your actions on whether to followed that priority or not
  42. Rate other people as first, be less significant
  43. Forgive those who wrong you and move on without revenge or lashing back
  44. Serve others and not yourself first
  45. Seek wisdom, which is knowledge of what is true coupled with just judgment of action
  46. Recognize and know that you know little and there is always more to learn
  47. Avoid explosive reactions, and subside any aggression
  48. Accept new ideas and change, not being stuck on what you knew before
  49. Teach all that you can for the benefit of others
  50. Learn from and model the life of the most humble teachers in history (Jesus, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Buddha, etc)

http://learnthis.ca/2011/01/50-ways-to-be-more-humble-and-to-act-humbly/

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2-Year-Old’s Adorable Birthday Message for Mommy Will Make Your Heart Melt

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Click Here to see Video >>>>Birthday Message

One very special mother just received the birthday present of a lifetime, and it was completely free.

“Usually my wife’s birthday is a pretty big deal so I try to do something new,” Dan Konkel, 28, of Bridgewater, N. J., told GoodMorningAmerica.com.

So when he sat down about a month prior to the big day brainstorming ideas of how to up the ante from last year, the couple’s adorable 2-year-old daughter, Claire, immediately came to mind, and the result was pure magic.

“Hi Mommy!” little Claire announced in the heart melting video she and father, a professional photographer, recorded for her mom, Stacey. “I just wanted to say, ‘Happy Birthday.'”

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The blonde, bright-eyed, pigtailed toddler continues to list the reasons why she loves her mommy so much, and each one is more inspiring than the first. “You’re beautiful,” Claire lists as number one. “You are amazing,” comes in at number two. As for number three, “You’re the best mommy ever.” She struggles a bit with number four, but it’s probably one of the most flattering to any mother’s ears: “You’re the best cook.”

Since Konkel gets to spend a lot of time with Claire while his wife is at work, he wanted to create a condensed video of Claire’s vast love for her mommy into something she could watch and enjoy whenever she wanted to.

“I sat her down in the living room and we had a conversation for about 40 minutes about Mommy and toys and food,” Konkel said of his little girl, who hand-picked her outfit for the “movie” they were making.

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But the entire conversation wasn’t all upbeat, as the little girl suddenly got very deep on her unsuspecting dad.

“I started talking about when Mommy’s not here,” Konkel explained. “I said, ‘She works so hard, doesn’t she?’ She was like, ‘Mommy works so hard,’ almost on the verge of tears, and I was on the other side of the camera in the living room like, ‘Oh my goodness.’ It just poured out.”

Little Claire’s adorably heartfelt, personal message for her mother’s 28 th birthday definitely takes the cake as the best gift ever, and it seems the entire Internet agrees, with one Reddit poster even commenting to other dads, “Gentleman: The bar has been raised.”

In order to surprise his wife, Konkel edited together the video, uploaded it to her iPad and hid it in her baby bag with a note that said, “Hey, watch me.”

“She said it was the best birthday present she ever got,” Konkel, who is unsure how he’ll ever top this gift next year, said.

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Chewing Gum Could Make You Smarter

Posted by Laura Schwecherl on March 6, 2012

Chew on this: Gum may not only satisfy taste buds and freshen breath. Studies have found chewing a stick of gum may enhance cognitive performance and even improve mood [1].

BUBBLICIOUS BRAINPOWER — THE TAKEAWAY

 While coffee is indeed amazing for you, there’s another way to get a quick boost of

concentration without the caffeine jitters. Chewing gum can help increase alertness and attention. In one study, chewing gum was an A+ advantage: People performed better on verbal and math problems and were about 10 percent more alert when they chomped away [2]. Other research suggests chewing gum can boost brainpower in people of all ages. Middle-school gum chewers received higher grades in math compared to non-chewers [3]. (That’s why I was so bad at algebra…). And a stick of Trident (or another favorite brand, of course!) may even be helpful during a long day at the office, since chewing mint or caffeinated gum can decrease sleepiness [4] [5].

A boost of happiness may be found inside the wrapper, too. A stick of gum has proved to increase heart rate and cortisol levels, which sometimes results in a better mood [6]. Another study found two weeks of gum-chewing decreased participants’ anxiety and some symptoms of depression (Let’s hope it wasn’t the same piece the whole time.) [7].

There may not be a definitive reason for chewing gum’s magical mental enhancement. Lucky for teeth, the answer isn’t the sugar, since scientists have experimented with sugar-filled and sugar-free gum. Some experts suggest it may not be the gum itself, but rather the act of chewing that keeps us alert and focused.

But the effects of chewing gum may last only as long as its flavor. People who chewed gum five minutes before tackling a series of cognitive tasks only performed better than a control group for the first 20 minutes [8]. Pro tip: Save that Juicy Fruit for the hardest part of the test, and then spit it out.

THE TIP

Pop a stick of gum to help increase attention, boost mood, and ward off sleepiness.

– See more at: http://greatist.com/happiness/chewing-gum-could-make-you-smarter#sthash.LUK2ydnB.dpuf

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Eat That Frog!!

Eat That Frog Movie.

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Beauty is in Learning Not in Regret (post by Kirk Weisler)

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May your week be spent not in regret and guilt but in learning.

And may you choose to have a beautiful week!

Kirk Out

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How to Make a Hardworking Pizza Delivery Guy Cry (post by Kirk Weisler)

Magic is awesome — and so is being generous to others. This next video is jam-packed full of both.

YouTube magician and prankster Stuart Edge was able to pull of an impressive illusion that turns $1 bills into $20 bills. He did this after ordering pizzas and discussing the appropriate amount to tip with the delivery guys.

The end result was $100 tips for a handful of hardworking men.

“That’s awesome,” one of the delivery guys says as his voice chokes up. “I teared up.”

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of views the video has gotten since it went up on YouTube Tuesday, a Pizza Hut manager also called Edge to personally thank him for generously giving her driver a $100 tip.

Watch the touching video below:

Read this story this morning on my news feed from http://www.theblaze.com … and while maybe we can’t do magic like this Stuart Edge, there are still lots of ways we can make some magic and surprise and delight those who give service everyday.

And with national customer service week coming I say we make some magic. (Or at least buy them pizza)

Have a magical day

Kirk

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Throw Back Thursday!!

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“IF WE COULD SEE INSIDE OTHER PEOPLE’S HEARTS”

“IF WE COULD SEE INSIDE OTHER PEOPLE’S HEARTS”: LIFE, in 4 min
WOW! A profound look at life, in 4 minutes. You have to watch this — and share it. We literally welled up with tears — very rarely does that happen.

The camera wanders and shows the inner lives of people around us as they do their daily tasks. Most of it is set in a hospital, where there is so much worry, sadness, some joy, bad news, good news, no news, anxiety, fear — as in real life, but perhaps magnified.

We’ve all BEEN there – all experienced at least one – or more! – of what these people are experiencing. Hence, the tears! It’s so TRUE.

This short video is at once quiet, profound, powerful, true, simple — and so supremely human. It was produced by the Cleveland Clinic, as an example of their regard for empathy.

It’s a profound reminder: we ALL have our story. Others have theirs. We NEVER know. And to treat others with the benefit of the doubt, with courtesy, with compassion, with respect.

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The Power of Attitude by Simple Truth

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I grew up in Trenton, a west Tennessee town of five thousand people. I have wonderful memories of those first eighteen years, and many people in Trenton influenced my life in very positive ways. My football coach, Walter Kilzer, taught me the importance of hard work, discipline, and believing in myself. My history teacher, Fred Culp, is still the funniest person I’ve ever met. He taught me that a sense of humor, and especially laughing at yourself, can be one of life’s greatest blessings.

But my father was my hero. He taught me many things, but at the top of the list, he taught me to treat people with love and respect…to live the Golden Rule. I remember one particular instance of him teaching this “life lesson” as if it were yesterday. Dad owned a furniture store, and I used to dust the furniture every Wednesday after school to earn my allowance. One afternoon I observed my Dad talking to all the customers as they came in…the hardware store owner, the banker, a farmer, a doctor. At the end of the day, just as Dad was closing, the garbage collector came in.

I was ready to go home, and I thought that surely Dad wouldn’t spend too much time with him. But I was wrong. Dad greeted him at the door with a big hug and talked with him about his wife and son who had been in a car accident the month before. He empathized, he asked questions, he listened, and he listened some more. I kept looking at the clock, and when the man finally left, I asked, “Dad, why did you spend so much time with him? He’s just the garbage collector.” Dad then looked at me, locked the front door to the store, and said, “Son, let’s talk.”

He said, “I’m your father and I tell you lots of stuff as all fathers should, but if you remember nothing else I ever tell you, remember this…treat every human being just the way that you would want to be treated.” He said, “I know this is not the first time you’ve heard it, but I want to make sure it’s the first time you truly understand it, because if you had understood, you would never have said what you said.” We sat there and talked for another hour about the meaning and the power of the Golden Rule. Dad said, “If you live the Golden Rule everything else in life will usually work itself out, but if you don’t, your life probably will be very unhappy and without meaning.”

I recently heard someone say, “If you teach your child the Golden Rule, you will have left them an estate of incalculable value.” Truer words were never spoken.

What you just read is one of 28 short chapters in The Power of Attitude. It was titled: “Rule #1…It’s Golden.”

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