{"id":10608,"date":"2019-02-06T22:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2019-02-13T02:31:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T08:31:30","slug":"the-big-difference-a-little-kindness-can-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/the-big-difference-a-little-kindness-can-make\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Difference A Little Kindness Can Make"},"content":{"rendered":"

To say it has been a rough week this week wouldn\u2019t quite do it justice. We\u2019ve spent the week in hospitals with a very sick little grandbaby. We are all going on almost no sleep this week and we\u2019ve been sick with worry, but through all of it there has been something truly amazing that we have experienced and that is the many acts of kindness from others. It has given me a special appreciation for what a difference a little kindness makes in your life.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been little acts of kindness: Like the smile of a nurse who comes in to check on you but who does more than just their job, they try and lift your spirits as well. It\u2019s the little posts on my blog and on social media from friends and strangers alike letting you know they are praying for you and for your grandbaby. It\u2019s the phone calls from extended family checking to see how things are going. It\u2019s the text messages telling you that you are loved and people are thinking about you. It\u2019s the neighbors who\u2019ve made offers to bring soup, or meals, or who drop off a fun treat on the front porch. And it\u2019s the emails from business associates letting you know they are thinking of you and understand why you can\u2019t be at work or why you have to miss the event you were supposed to go to or just letting you know they understand why you can\u2019t respond right now.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hundred little things like that which have gone on all week. These little acts of kindness have made me feel so loved and comforted and they have been an amazing blessing to my life. Not only that, but they have inspired me to want to do better myself at performing little acts of kindness for others. I think we often dismiss the impact they will have and we brush it off as not being a priority to do, but having experienced the effects of it firsthand this week has really inspired me to see the big difference a little kindness can make, and its made me want to do better.<\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/p>\n

~Amy Rees Anderson\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0(read Amy’s new book “What AWESOME Looks Like: How To Excel In Business & Life<\/a>” )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To say it has been a rough week this week wouldn\u2019t quite do it justice. We\u2019ve spent the week in hospitals with a very sick little grandbaby. We are all going on almost no sleep this week and we\u2019ve been sick with worry, but through all of it there has been something truly amazing that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,501,5784,63,20338,96,18,19005,366,20333,20342,19369,20339,112,20336,81,238,20341,20340,20335,20334,1229,19932,20337],"class_list":["post-10608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciative","tag-blessings","tag-call-and-say-you-care","tag-culture","tag-forbes","tag-forbesbooks","tag-goal-poster","tag-little-acts-of-kindness","tag-loved-and-comforted","tag-make-it-a-priority","tag-offer-a-meal","tag-self-improvement","tag-send-a-text","tag-smile","tag-thankful","tag-the-difference-kindness-makes","tag-the-difference-you-can-make","tag-the-effects-of-kindness","tag-the-kindness-of-others","tag-understanding","tag-what-awesome-looks-like","tag-write-a-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10608"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10643,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions\/10643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}