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.
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Today five friends got together to play music. Four of us had a little local band, the Old Goats (we all have grey/white beards) about ten years ago. We’ve added a fifth goat. I guess we’re the Older Goats now.
We worked on three tunes, one swing tune, The Frim Fram Sauce, and two that I guess are folk: Streets of London, and Ride On. We have all been in touch over the years, played together at parties.
It’s nice to commit to practice every week, and get caught up with these old friends. We’re comfortable with each other, like family.
A ‘penny dropped’:
I wrote to new What’s Gone Well member: “Another thing that can help others, is to ask them for one of their moments that have ‘Gone Well’ in their day.”
She replied, “Yes, I can see that this thoughtful question would guide a habitual meet up conversation into a more meaningful encounter!!
Thanks Christopher! I’ll try it :)”
(Her mother traveled from BC to Australia to meet her.)
Someone today smiled and encouraged me with their generous gratitude for my loving care of them … my heart overflowed with divine Love … I am grateful !!
A friend was so pleased by the quality [strategic] introduction I set up for him, that he made a donation to CS Interviews Society.
I help people talk. I’m often asked what ages I work with. I answer “Any age, from two to ninety-two”. But I am not rigid about age. This week I got two new students.
One is one and a half, and seems so far to be a bright and communicative “late talker”. We’ll work in a playful way, having the parents use some fun techniques with books and toys and bath time. I never give actual homework after a first session. Just play and connect and chat.
The other new student this week was one hundred and three years old, a woman who lives on her own, and had a small stroke last week, affecting her voice quality and her speech. She talks in a breathy, weak voice, but the ideas are all there. I never make house calls, but 103? I went to her own house where she lives on her own. Usually I would have people practice in casual conversation, or reciting old familiar poems or sayings. But this woman was once an accountant, so I thought numbers might be her magic key. She livened, sat up more alert, and gave it her best when I asked her to count by twos, then by threes.
Now, usually I would suggest daily conversation and maybe a little reciting of a poem here and there. I would never give homework at a first session. This woman, 103 years old, was insistent. “You must tell me what to practice at what time every day”.
So I printed, in large print for her to read, which page to do each day, in an arithmetic book. Out loud, in her best clear voice. I wanted to give her Sunday off. But she wouldn’t have it.
She is doing well. Nature and the body’s own healing are the real determiner. But we can’t underestimate the power of this woman’s sheer determination and insistence on a practice routine.
This was the week when I bent my routine. I made a house call. I defied Ageism. (The way racism is prejudice against a certain race, Ageism would mean leaving out a certain age group. I didn’t.) I went with the needs of the other person. I thank the people who needed me. I thank flexibility. I thank individuality.
I thank the world of rules that are made to be broken.