Tag: go first

Take the Risk!

Jennifred Jones

Do you have any idea how many people have not been spoken to in a meaningful way by anyone today???

You might be one of them!

Let’s take the risk – and speak to – acknowledge one another. Everyone needs this gesture.

Covid 19 is past, but the after effects are long bearing. People have gone into and are still hiding! Help them come out into life again.

They may not be hiding behind a mask. It could be the phone, the EarPods, the laptop, the coffee cup, the outward busyness or preoccupation with whatever. I believe we have a responsibility to befriend our fellow human beings…even if only with a smile, or ‘Hi’ or opening the door, letting them go first in line…a multitude of ways to show them that others see them and are watching out for them…even if only for a moment. But that moment will last longer than a moment in the person who’s been in hiding. It will sink into their subconscious and begin to work.

Yes, there is work to be done and we need to be some of the workers in whatever capacity we find ourselves.

Take the risk. Do your work. Lead with this ‘work’ and transformation will happen!

I guarantee it will!

Does it Really Matter?

Jennifred Jones

Does it really matter what I think?

Does it really matter what I say?

Does it really matter what I do?

Someone once told me, “Whatever I do has no effect on you.”

Is that really true?

When the kids were small, I read them a story about the boy and his dog… this is my recollection of it.

One morning, a father woke up and spoke sharply to his wife while the kids were getting ready for school, she then spoke unkindly to the daughter, who then yelled at her brother. The boy in turn kicked the dog. It was a long hard day for that family.

The next morning, father woke up and told his wife he loved her, she spoke kindly to their daughter, who was kind to her little brother. The boy in turned hugged the dog. It was a better day for their family.

What thoughts are we allowing to repeat inside ourselves even though no one else can hear them?

What words are we choosing to speak, whether out-loud or online for others to hear and see?

What am I doing because of what I choose to think or speak about?

Is another person lifted higher because of me?

Or pushed down because of me?

I want to encourage others to go higher, be better, do better.

I believe inside everyone of us is the desire to help others do their best.

Other people need our help….there’s work to be done.

I’ll go first!

I will think about my thoughts.