Situational Awareness Saturday

Situational Awareness Saturday

I'm a couple days late posting this, been feeling under-the-weather and also busy busy busy. Never fear, though: I am here!

Situational Awareness Saturday is a recap on your week. How did your positive actions effect others? Did you have situations occur that weren't pleasant during the week that you could have changed just by your actions or attitude towards them? How will you choose to act the following week?

By taking a look back we can reflect on ourselves and decide to be better if we weren't pleased with the outcomes. While regret is nothing healthy, we learn instead to change for the next time situations arise. 

It's almost plan building. Did we make more of something we shouldn't have? Did we show negativity instead of making a positive choice? Were our words credible? Did we make our words count when you spoke?

It's time to take that look back so that you can move forward to a better week next week. If you have trouble making the most of the week you can always refer back to our One Day At A Time blog for the listing of each day to bring some focus and sparkle to those around us: in turn making a better mindset for ourselves!

Make Someone Happy Monday

Make Someone Happy Monday

Hopefully not too late, had a busy weekend overall. 

Making Someone Happy Monday is all about random acts of kindness.

Random acts of kindness is simply doing things for people who don't ask for it or don't expect it. 

Now think about how horrible Mondays feel for some people and how uplifting it would be to receive a random act of kindness!

Ideas for a Random Act of Kindness

Hold a door open for someone (this should be everyday, but you would be surprised!)

Buy the coffee order of the person in back or front of you in line.

Pay from the fast food meal of the person in back of you in a drive through.

Make a simple basket of soft, comforting things for a person at a nursing home and ask the front desk who may not have family that visits them or sends them things.

Buy some age appropriate books and gift them all to a local day care or government ran organization like the DCF education building where they do food stamps. (little ones have very little to do at these places)

If you go out to eat ask for the manager. Tell them what great service your waiter/waitress gave and tip not only the person waiting on you, but make sure you tip the cook.

On most receipts for food places and such usually there is a website to speak about the service. Make sure you remember the people who took care of you and their names and especially the times you dined with them and write a spectacular account of your visit.

If you spot someone in a store at checkout struggling to make change for a purchase offer to get the rest of the change for them no matter what they are purchasing.

Help an elderly person cross the sidewalk, road, or parking lot, get the door- or if they are leaving- offer to help them load their car with their items from a store.

See children eyeing the bubble gum machines? Give them some quarters.

If you see someone struggling at a store to get an item off a shelf offer assistance.

Pay off a random lay away at the local department store.

Mondays don't have to be so daunting for everyone. Making a person happy just by showing kindness or doing something anonymously really brings out joy in people. It doesn't need to be expensive. Lot's of ideas are cheap or require no money at all!