http://www.focusedbusinessaction.com/2008/12/one-simple-act/ Helping Overworked Home-Based Business Owners Own Their Zone Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:28:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.focusedbusinessaction.com/2008/12/one-simple-act/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Susan Hamilton Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:26:27 +0000 http://scottlewis.wordpress.com/2007/03/10/the-butterfly-effect/#comment-2 Wow! What a powerful lesson we can all learn from this very touching story. As a long-time public school teacher, I can tell you that there are a lot of hurting kids and parents out there. It doesn't take a lot of time out of one's day to smile or say a few encouraging words to someone who seems discouraged. And, of course, we all need to occasionally re-evaluate our view of "what makes a day successful." Instead of counting the number of items we've checked off our "to do" list, we could count the number of times we stopped to really listen to other people and communicated "You are important, and I appreciate you." Now, THAT would surely be a successful day! Wow! What a powerful lesson we can all learn from this very touching story. As a long-time public school teacher, I can tell you that there are a lot of hurting kids and parents out there. It doesn’t take a lot of time out of one’s day to smile or say a few encouraging words to someone who seems discouraged. And, of course, we all need to occasionally re-evaluate our view of “what makes a day successful.” Instead of counting the number of items we’ve checked off our “to do” list, we could count the number of times we stopped to really listen to other people and communicated “You are important, and I appreciate you.” Now, THAT would surely be a successful day!

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