You Mean More Than You Realize: How Small Acts of Kindness Save Lives | Be the Reason Someone Doesn't Give Up | #151

Discover why you mean more than you realize with resilience coach Dawn Super's powerful story about being the reason someone chooses to keep living. This guide is for anyone feeling alone or noticing someone else seeming alone during times of division and prolonged stress.

Learn why humans are wired for community, the spiritual practice of giving everyone you meet a gift (a smile, flower, or compliment), and how attention is one of our greatest gifts to give. Includes a life-saving story about reaching out to someone who posted dark song lyrics on Facebook and helping them through suicidal ideation - years later, they have a beautiful daughter.

Discover the crucial difference between giving from a full cup versus empty (41 years of giving from empty leads to resentment), why you must fill yourself first with self-love and boundaries before giving to others, and how being kind to one person ripples outward to everyone. Features the powerful reminder that you are an amazing expression of creation itself - there's no one else exactly like you. Perfect for lonely people, those wanting to help others, and anyone navigating a world designed to make us hate ourselves.

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You Mean More Than You Realize: Be the Reason Someone Doesn't Give Up

What if you are the reason someone decides not to give up today?

This dose is for anyone feeling alone or noticing someone else seeming alone.

This is the Daily Dose of Dawn at Dawn - videos designed to expand your thinking.

So why do we want to think about this? Yesterday I talked about how we're an entire nation under prolonged grip stress at the moment, and I gave several ways that music can help you cope.

Welcome in, daily dosers, to this conversation about togetherness and giving more of what matters to each other.

Humans are wired for community, and we're facing a lot of division right now.

First, a story. This one's about unity and about why I always say "together we all win."

Many times I've been in the right place at the right time and helped people through some incredibly challenging feels.

An example: A Facebook friend in another country posted something I thought was really dark. So I reached out to them via messenger, and it turned out to just be song lyrics.

We exchanged many messages back and forth about life and encouragement and moving beyond a toxic life.

Three weeks later, he messaged me to say he had been thinking about ending it all. That's why he posted the song lyric. And he was thanking me because he was stronger now and feeling more on his own side.

Years later, he went on to have a lovely daughter.

So what can we do as people?

Well, you don't need to go out looking for people who are in crisis. That's not the point of my story, nor a recommendation.

I once heard a spiritual leader say: "Give a gift to everyone that you meet - a smile, a flower, a compliment."

I thought that was a lovely way to live. So I started doing it, and that's what I'm talking about today.

"I love that top." "Wow, that's a great color on you." "Hey, your hair looks so cute today." "I absolutely appreciated the way that you answered that question."

When you're able to feel excited about being alive, you're filled with that loving vibe. And just like when you can tell someone next to you is in a bad mood - you can feel it pushing on you - the good stuff does that, too.

When you're full of the gifts that you gave to yourself - the self-love, the self-care, living by your values - they spill out of you easily towards others.

We each have our own gifts. And one of the primary gifts that we have to give is our attention.

So give yourself the attention that you deserve and let it fill you up.

And whether you choose to be subtle about it or let your gift sing from the mountain - it matters.

It matters to you first, and then to others, and then the ones they encounter, and so on and so on.

Being kind to one person is being kind to all of us, especially if it catches.

And here's the key: You have to actually be full first.

I spent 41 years of my life giving from an empty cup. And it doesn't work that way - you just get resentful.

Now, I fill myself up first. Self-love, boundaries, putting myself first - and THEN I give it to others.

It's sustainable. It's joyful. And it actually works.

You are an amazing expression of creation itself. There is no one else exactly like you. How cool is that?

Keep being you. You're really good at it, and the world needs more of that.

I made this into a magnet. If you're on the blog, you can click the link to get it in the mail for free if you're in the US. And if you're seeing this on YouTube, it will be in the description, the link to do that.

I'd be happy to send it to you so that you can keep being you - because it's not easy to stay authentically ourselves in a world that's designed to make us hate ourselves.

So have you had this happen for you? Where someone showed you a kindness and it really changed your life?

I did.

Many years ago, I took a narcolepsy medication that almost killed me. And there was someone from another country who would FaceTime with me when I was alone so that I wasn't scared.

Even though they couldn't come do anything for me, and they weren't getting anything out of it - they just wanted to, human to human, be there for me.

And they did. And it made a difference. And it made me go and do the same for others.

You can't pour from an empty cup.

I spent 41 years giving to others from empty. It just made me resentful.

In my workbook How to Be on Your Own Side, you'll learn how to fill yourself FIRST with self-love and boundaries - so when you give to others, it's sustainable, joyful, and actually works.

Get it here: https://HowToBeOnYourOwnSide.com

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You are an amazing expression of creation itself. There's no one else exactly like you.

I made this into a magnet and I'll mail it to you for free (US only).

Get your free "Keep Being You" magnet: https://keepbeingyoumagnet.com/

Because it's not easy to stay authentically ourselves in a world designed to make us hate ourselves.

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