Help

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
Sally Koch

Are you waiting for a great opportunity to help someone? Often we look for a great opportunity to help someone because we are looking for the rewards that come from doing that. Perhaps we want the social recognition. Perhaps we want to feel good about ourselves for making a significant improvement in someone's life. But this is all about us, not about the other person. And so often, as soon as someone stops making us feel good, perhaps by asking something of us that we don't want to deliver, we just abandon them, perhaps even in their hour of need. True altruism is as rare as that opportunity to make a significant difference in someone's life.

Small opportunities to help others are all around us every day. Often we don't even recognize them as opportunities to help others because we are looking for that big one. We don't realize that helping others is often as easy as looking them in the eye and smiling at them. We forget that ours may have been the only smile they've got all day. We don't realize that helping others is often as easy as just listening to them. We forget that we may have been the only person willing to listen to them all day. We often don't realize that a few minutes of our time and genuine attention might be enough to make their day. We can all do that. And it can be one of our biggest successes in life.

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