A week (2) of giving a Helping Hand

In the last week I was supposed to focus on giving people a helping hand…well, this blog is a week late, and I don’t have specific experiences of helpfulness to share, but I do have the lessons learned from what I have been experiencing.

Tweet: ‘Who do I want to be in the world? How do I want to show up?’ @erinkellygirl

The lessons:

• Helping somebody makes me feel very happy.
• When you help someone the person receiving the help is grateful and happy.
• Tweet: Unselfish help is paying forward with heart. @erinkellygirl
• It is OK if someone declines an offer of help.
• Sometimes I can’t help even if I want to.
• Helping others can create a ripple effect both in myself in wanting to help more as well as in them for offering help outside of themselves.

Tweet: Offering help creates a boomerang of happiness. @erinkellygirl

And this is what I’ve learned after my two self-experience experiments:

• When I am on the receiving end of help it makes me want to help in return. If not the person offering the help, but sometimes for the next person I meet who needs it.
• Helpfulness always concerns at least two people: the one who is asking/needing help and the person who gives a helping hand. Both can make the other happy, feel appreciated and feel important.
• Helping is so much more than the person you are helping, the act is often gratifying, fulfilling and fun for the giver.
• Giving and receiving help from/to a person who isn’t wanting it can be hard and frustrating. When I experience this I ask myself, ‘Who do I want to be in the world? How do I want to show up?’ 

Who do you want to be in the world? How do you want to show up?

Tweet: Be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi @erinkellygirl