Happy Earth Day!
My family and I have been recycling for over ten years and this makes us feel good. However we have begun to ask ourselves what other small actions could we be taking to be kinder to our planet.
Some of the small actions is that we use recycled cloth bags for all of our shopping. We recycle any of the plastic bags we do have and we have been choosing filtered water over bottled water.
It occurred to me that the small actions we are taking as a collective will obviously yield big gains down the road. This concept also applies to our businesses and our leadership.
Small actions that we take as a leader can lead us to gains we may have not even planned to receive. For example one of my employees was having a very tough day- I however was feeling great. I really wasn’t in the mood to ‘deal’ with someone who was in a funky mood. It then struck me fairly quickly that a small action to help my employee feel fantastic was really following up on the concept of ‘increase for all’.
Needless to say I quickly shared by good mood energy and went on to invest more energy and time than ever before in helping her to feel fantastic. The next day I was the one having a tough day and it was my beloved employee who returned the good energy favor and then some!
You have heard that saying ‘you have to give to get’ and I know it often can feel counter intuitive when we are in a negative space but it really is true.
We want a greener earth- we have to give to get.
We want a happy team- we have to give to get.
We want to have more clients- we have to give to get.
Small actions- big and bigger gains.