Quick Tips: Showing Kindness Everyday

February is a month where thoughts to turn relationships, but really, focusing on relationships and kindness should be a year round theme. Author and speaker Linda Gilden shares tips for showing kindness every day.

Showing Kindness Every Day

My three-year-old opened the kitchen door and screamed, “Come here! Quick!” I hurried back inside.

“What’s the matter?” I asked expecting blood or worse.

She pointed to the kitchen cabinet. She had arranged seven folded potato chips. In our family, folded potato chips say, “I love you.”

Small acts or words can change the course of someone’s day. Be alert for ways you can encourage others with small deeds.

• Be aware of things that are special to your friends. It might be folded potato chips but it could be the corner piece of the brownie, the front seat in the car, a single flower.
• Some people respond to acts of service rather than gifts—unload the dishwasher, come to a meeting early to help set up chairs, wash the car without being asked, cook and take dinner.
• Use kind words and make sure your body language matches them. Often because of our upbringing we say the right thing, but our slumped shoulders, rolling eyes, or stance indicate otherwise. Make it a habit to brighten someone’s day with heartfelt, encouraging words.

Many times the little things make the biggest difference!

Linda Gilden is a writer and speaker living in SC. She believes in the importance of finding everyday ways to encourage others. She is the author of 11 books many of which are about encouraging others. connect with Linda and find out more about her books and speaking engagements through her webpage HERE

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Quick Tips: How To Make Your Words Matter

Linda Gilden is an experienced writer, speaker, editor, writing coach, and Certified Personality Trainer who believes in the importance of communication. Today she shares three tips for making your words matter. 

Communication among families and friends has taken a turn toward short and sweet. Emoticons and texting shorthand have changed the way we write to each other and eliminated much of the use of verbal communication.

So what can we do about it? Become intentional with your spoken words, especially to your children. When you send them off to school (or to anywhere for that matter), be intentional about what you say to your children. Your words will linger and you can make their days brighter or ruin it altogether. Here's how:

•          Choose your words carefully. They won’t be forgotten.
•          Make sure they are positive. They will have maximum impact throughout the day.
•          Match your body language to your words. An “I love you” backed up by a smile and      a hug will be remembered in many ways.

Effective encouragement often comes in the form of words—words once spoken that can’t be taken back. So choose your words carefully. Let your words that echo in the minds of your children each day be uplifting and ones that spur them on to have the best day ever!

Check out Linda's creative devotion book in which each week's devotions center around one word. You can order it here.

Linda Gilden is an experienced writer, speaker, editor, writing coach, and Certified Personality Trainer. Author of the popular Love Notes series, she is also the author of Mommy Pick-Me-Ups, Mama Was the Queen of Christmas, Personality Perspectives – Clues to Building Better Relationships, Called to Write, and many ghostwritten books. With over a thousand magazine articles to her credit, she is a prolific writer who loves to share a great story. She speaks nationally many times throughout the year, is a frequent radio and television guest, and welcomes the opportunity to help others become better communicators.

You can connect with Linda through her web page

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