What’s Gone Well Today? ®
Here’s an easy way to recognize others… and in turn change how we look at our day, and our life.
When has someone made your day with the service they’ve given, or something they’ve said or done for you? Sharing these moments may inspire others. They lift the spirit!
On another note asking someone What’s Gone Well Today? ®, becomes life-changing. Conversations have a fresh, inspiring perspective.
In the larger picture our tools help individuals and organizations become more empathetic. We would love to hear from you! Please share an experience that’s gone well in your day.
So many beautiful Cinderella pumpkins in our patch. They will last for months in our home. Pumpkins like to be pampered.
Hearing the new approaches to education, to helping students cope better with social pressures is a WGW experience.
This week I asked my monthly house-cleaner to please clean my oven first, as I’d recently spilled something in it. She did a great job of it, but when finished couldn’t get the oven door to close. No amount of jiggling or pushing would close it, so I said I’d go next door and ask my neighbour to come over and fix it. He came right over with his adult son and some tools, and they both did various things, but it wouldn’t close. Meanwhile, the cleaning lady had phoned her sister who is on a kitchen staff and “can fix anything” and asked her to come and do it. She arrived soon after the neighbours, with her sister who was in her car. So now I had two men and three women with various tools all talking and taking turns in my kitchen with this stove, and anxious about me making dinner.
The neighbour said that his wife would cook the unbaked pizza on my counter for me, and he’d bring it here by 6, ready to eat. And he did.
In the meanwhile they had removed the oven door and the two hinges, and put them all neatly on the floor, resisting all efforts to work properly.
Everyone was thanked and they all uneasily left.
This morning about 8, I phoned the appliance shop on Quadra St. and arranged for Shillion Leung to come and work on this door. He came later in the day, smiled and grunted, and with his trained thumbs fixed it in less than a minute, and got the door to smoothly open and close several times.
He got paid, the neighbour got a jar of jam from my freezer, and the sisters got a phone thanks. All is well!
A friend offered to meet for coffee. While he was willing to drive anywhere I thought of a place between us… close to the last place we’d lunched some years ago. The Berwick came to mind. I contacted them and they invited us to come and take a look. From the moment he arrived at the front door he was impressed with the care, the detail, the features.. and the environment. We had a wonderful conversation. It was just like being on a cruise ship.
Riding in the rain on my bike on a fairly busy road, I turned to look at a building I was passing and my bike tire caught in the groove between the curb pavement and the road… I was able to recover my balance before I lost control of the bike. I was so grateful. Relished the feeling of being protected.
I have a client who is a counsellor who lost a close member and didn’t think it was appropriate to greave infront of one of her clients at work and I reminded her of the
“All or nothing thinking”, she feared, which is what she and her training teaches people to not fall victim to.
I explained to her in her moment of need that what’s the worst if nothing would come from a few tears in the office of counseling when asked by a client “how are you today?”