k_my_kindness

Trigger for this bpost — “Keep a log of all the kind acts you do in a particular day” — A Positive Psychology trainer (Edgar K. Tham) suggested in his training hand out.

Trigger for this bpost — I see myself as a kind person, though my son thinks I’m unkind to customer service staff.

Each “thinking person” has a yardstick of kindness that’s slightly different from the mainstream yardstick. The unthinking person is easly influenced by presentations of kindness to strangers or customers, but these are far from the most important kindness.

• kind to family .. Perhaps the most important aspect in reality
• kind to self .. A missing element in many yardksticks is the Question “Is the person kind to the self. Does she like herself?”
• kind to coworkers .. Are you kind to yur coworkers? Look at Larry/Josh vs deMunk
• kind to rivals, competitors, frenemies
• kind to charities or strangers seeking help .. “easy” for the celebrities
• kind to customers .. For an employee in any people-facing job, I think it’s easy to be kind to his customers/users, because he is trained, paid (and monitored) to do so. Negative feedback (complaints etc) on unkind gestures is prompt, recorded, and analyzed with plenty of guidance, so he will receive plenty of “support” to correct his behavior.