“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.”
Regret has often followed the hallways of things that have been spoken in my life. Words I wish I could drag back into my mouth. The power of the spoken word is that once it has been said it can’t be undone. There is no erase or delete button on our mouths. Our words are living, breathing beings.
One lesson that I have learnt so I live with less regret is to give myself the job description of Head Cheer Leader.
Anne Frank says it perfectly;
“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.”
We each have a piece of good news inside. We sometimes think good thoughts about each other, but often we are quick to speak out the negative things rather than the positive ones. Imagine if we just said out loud the positive things that we thought about people every single time.
Our world would be full of much less regret. Encouragement is like a muscle the more we use it the stronger we get.
Our Regret Less Challenge
What if we spoke out the positive things we thought to each other, even strangers?
It can be awkward, but what if we all did it. In the queue at the shops, if we thought someone’s hair looked good, what if we said it out loud. At the cafe when someone makes you a beautiful coffee, what if we just said it out loud?
Text it
Write it
Send it
Speak it
Smile and bravely just say something good.
You will never ever regret encouraging someone and the strange thing is, no matter how awkward it feels, you will feel better at the end.
In a world that is full of so much negativity and sadness, with internet shouting matches and people tearing each other down, what if the women who call Kinwomen their home lived a life marked by encouragement.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.