Love Trumps All - 3 Leadership Lessons for Love and Happiness in a time when an outcome is causing stress

1. Love Trumps All

2. 3 ways to develop your leadership
skills in a nation torn apart

4. Seek to hear the words of those with
opinions different from your own

5. Listen without judgment

6. Listen without intent to change or
challenge

7. Listen for common values

8. Ask questions to find what you
have in common

9. If you live in a city, seek out the voice of
those in rural communities

10. If you live in the country, seek out the
voice of those in cities

11. Listen by learning about views you do not
agree with by getting out of your media silo.

12. Develop your capacity to listen

13. Trust in your capacity to listen
Trust that wisdom will grow in you

14. Caveat: Listening does not mean allowing
yourself to be yelled at or treated badly.
(allowing that is not wisdom)

15. Be Kind

16. Every action has a ripple effect

17. (Buy the person behind you in line a cup of coffee – one of the favorites)
Commit random acts of kindness

18. Invite your neighbor to tea or coffee, or bring them cookies
Commit not so random acts of kindness
Give someone you do not like a gift
Praise someone you love, do it often and honestly
Say something nice about someone you have a grudge against (and mean it)

19. To yourself be kind
Say nice things to yourself about yourself everyday
When you say something negative about yourself, catch it & counter it
Feeling love for yourself counts as an act of kindness

20. Contemplate your goodness
Stop and drop into the goodness of you
This too has a ripple effect

21. Be the Change
You Want to See

22. Be the change you want to see
without trying to change others

23. What you resist persists
C.G. Jung
Take action for what you do want,
not what you do not want

24. Get involved in local politics
Search online “how to get involved local politics (name of your city or area”)
Sign up (and read) your local policy maker’s newsletter
Volunteer for an initiative or a campaign

25. Trust in your vision
Trust in your future
Trust in your goodness

26. more tools for happiness
happycounts.org