Compassion

Being an Answer to Someone's Prayers.

"No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank

We will be concluding our Revisiting Personal Values series today with a virtue that speaks volumes of the human heart; compassion.

Compassion is simply giving to others, not just money, but giving your heart. Putting other people in a better position than you met them. Going out of your way to be kind and to be an answer to someone else's prayer.

The truth is, we are on this earth for other people, to be a blessing, to be an answer, to blaze a trail, to open a door(s), to set a pathway, to solve a problem for humanity, to give value, and without compassion, we won't get here.

It is compassion that makes us build value, because we will always think, "How can I help?" "How can I make this thing better?" "How can I make people better?" "How can I give?", and invariably, the value that we keep giving, as a result of our compassion towards other people will start to overflow into our lives. It's led people to build businesses, establish charities, and made the world a better place.

You don't have to have a big bank account to be compassionate. It's as easy as deciding, in this moment, that you'll help people as much as it is in your capacity to do so. You'll give to people even if you don't seemingly have anything to get from them. Being compassionate is a promise you make to yourself, to make someone else's life breathe easier, each day, because you are alive.

It'll be easy to be compassionate when it dawns on you that we are all flesh, we are all from dust, and unto dust shall we return. We are of one body, one universe and irrespective of our religious differences, we are from a single source, meaning we are all the same thing, and what affects other people has a way of turning around to affect us, take COVID, for example, take the issues millions of miles away in Ukraine for example, take as little as someone's hunger, homelessness, thirst, for example. In another universe, in an alternate world, that could have been you.

Compassion is a virtue. It's not just hereditary. It's something you can decide to take up, as one of your core values. You can decide today to say you will let yourself feel what other humans feel, and do your best to help as much as is in your capacity to do so. I promise you, success is directly proportional to Compassion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson affirmed; To know that even one life has breathe easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded.

Action for the week: We all should be compassionate. Wake up tomorrow morning, and decide that for the rest of your life, you take up Compassion as a core value.

To your growth,

Your Coach,

Abiola Okunsanya,

Handzinspired.