Make Compassion a Verb Again

With the world heading in the direction it's heading, it's easy to start to develop a negative mindset or try to accomplish goals on your own to escape disappointment. I am guilty of this. It's easy to think "If they won't help me, or look out for me, I'll just protect myself and do the work on my own". I had this mindset for a very long time during some of my low moments in life.

Having that mindset drains you, however. You take on the burdens of many instead of the ones meant for you. You depress yourself, isolate yourself, and make yourself feel even worse by trying to make yourself feel accomplished or stable.

One thing I've learned is that there's always another way. I've always lived by the saying, "You become what you think about" but even the mind can play tricks on you if you're not fully self-aware of what you're actually thinking about. For a long time, people at my agency have been upset and disappointed at the condition my agency has gotten to over recent years.

I was also one of those people until a chocolate milk drinking troublemaker named, Christopher Kukk, joined our community. He didn't let the negativity and low morale get to him. Instead, he tried his best each day to make a difference wherever he could. Little by little, he encouraged numerous people across campus with his compassion and made Longwood a much happier and more optimistic place.

I never fully understood his optimism (although I loved it) until I started this content creation journey on social media. The more you put yourself out there and look to give your neighbor a leg up or a helping hand in life, the more you begin to see the world is not so doom and gloom.

Within a week, I've met so many new amazing people on LinkedIn willing to be kind to a total stranger. It makes you realize that love and positive energy really do exist around us in life. If we all come together and agree to love each other and live for a greater purpose than ourselves, we could really do some damage by changing this society.

Check out the full video above from Christopher Kukk saying all this in a much better way than I ever could.

Also, if you're into reading and looking for your next book, he's got an awesome book titled: "The Compassionate Achiever".

Find his book and other shenanigans here!: https://chriskukk.com/

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