Have you seen Leah's new site Nice Things Now? It's a simple concept, really. Focusing on the nice things we can do every day. Not necessarily grand gestures, just simple instances of sweetness and love. I get the warm fuzzies every time I read a post.
It's made me think about the Nice Things I could be doing. Like this morning, when Shawn was dead to the world at 7am after coming home from a late gig at 2am. I could choose to enforce our "pregnant ladies don't do morning puppy duty" rule or I could get up and deal with the pups and give Shawn 15 extra minutes of sleep. Throw in making eggs on toast for my exhausted rockstar and I ended up with a Nice Thing that made me feel better than the recipient. Don't get me wrong - Shawn was chuffed to wake up to happy pups and breakfast already made for him, but I got such a lift out of making his morning that my Nice Thing turned out to be almost selfish.
Which is kind of the point, I guess. If we're all focused on doing Nice Things for others and end up getting a rush out of making other people happy, it makes sense that there will be less of the not-so-nice-things in our lives. And we can all use some happy, can't we?
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That's the beauty of doing a nice thing - it almost always makes many people happy.
ReplyDeleteHow's the selling going? And I think we're due for another adorable belly photo!
Kindness is like that. It's my favorite thing and I do love her site, too.
ReplyDeleteIn college, my room mate and I kept a list on the wall entitled "The Glad Game," upon which we wrote down all the little happy moments in life or nice things people had done for us. It was a great reminder when I started feeling depressed or sorry for myself, and I'm thinking of starting it up again!
ReplyDeleteAmen.
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ReplyDeleteThis made me smile. And also a little hungry because I haven't eaten lunch yet.
But mostly the smile thing.
oh what a fun idea, i love that. and it's okay to be selfish when doing something nice.
ReplyDeletei get a kick out of stuff like that too, haha.
Cutest site! My actual favourite part of doing nice things for others is how good it makes me feel. I hold doors because I like doing something nice for someone else. Buying donuts for the office and seeing the guys enjoy them? I like that. Making the bed, doing the dishes so that she doesn't have to.. the little things. They make my heart happy. And cheers to being a Nice Things Pregnant Lady. You're the rockstar.
ReplyDeleteThat was very nice of you indeed. My instincts in the morning are normally very selfishly-centred. Instead of making breakfast, I normally feel like kicking the man who gets to sleep in. But that's not very nice and it doesn't make me feel very good either.
ReplyDeleteLovely idea. And it's true, the selfless can often become self-rewarding.
You hit the nail on the head when you wrote that doing something nice for someone else can feel so good its almost selfish. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteso true. it's crazy we aren't all doing more nice things, seeing how beneficial it is to US to do them.
ReplyDeleteAwww, that's really sweet of you. And trust me, do a few nice things for daddy-to-be now and it'll come back to you in spades after baby comes home. =)
ReplyDeleteThat's so true. I think there was a Friends episode about whether we can ever be truly charitable if we're getting something out of it ourselves. (And the answer, of course, is no.) IMO, doing a Nice Thing for one person should make at least two people happy. :)
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