Do a task that you know your person dislikes with a cheerful attitude and no expectation. Take your neighbor’s garbage can to the curb on trash pickup day; clean the dirty mugs in the sink even though it is your spouse or colleague’s day to do it; offer to drop the other soccer mom’s son at home, so she doesn’t have to come back to the ball fields in traffic.
Coach’s Corner: The research found that many small actions have an outsized impact; not because that specific action is unusually valuable but because it tells the other person youare valuable and valued. (And if you are doing a gift journal for your person, remember to write down the ways you value them each day.)
‘Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. ‘ Philippians 2:3-4