Fill someone's bucket.
I made a goal, and it was to fill someone's bucket every day. Now you may be asking, "What does it mean to fill a bucket?" Very likely, in fact, because probably not a lot of you people have read Have you filled a bucket today? So what is all this fill a bucket stuff?
Well, the bucket you're filling (or taking from) is someone's heart, or an invisible bucket you can't put down. You fill their bucket by saying or doing something nice, and you deplete it by doing something mean. Generally, when you fill someone's bucket, you fill yours too. When you do something nice for someone or someone does it for you, your bucket is full of whatever you want: huge guns, lions, rainbows, etc. When someone is mean to you or you're mean to someone else, your bucket gets empty.
Now some people are just down-in-the-dumps people all the time. Even if they refuse to have their bucket filled, do it anyway. If nothing else, you have the satisfaction that comes from trying to raise someone's spirits, because it makes you feel like a good person. Sometimes you can only fill one person's bucket. THAT'S OK. Don't feel bad because you can't fill both people's buckets as long as you try. You fail not when you don't succeed, but when you don't even try to help.
Some people are only concerned about their buckets and that they're always swelling, but never about anyone else's. That is what occasionally makes me ashamed to bear the name human, because our race can be so self-centered, greedy, and self-absorbed. Really, do something for the people that have empty buckets, not just go "Oh, poor me" when yours is empty. For, if I may quote, " Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you." or "Do to others what you wish for yourself." or "Do to others what you want to be done to you." They all say the exact same thing: be nice and others will be nice to you.
Try to fill someone else's bucket today and every day. Who knows, you might just end up with a full bucket of your own.
Well, the bucket you're filling (or taking from) is someone's heart, or an invisible bucket you can't put down. You fill their bucket by saying or doing something nice, and you deplete it by doing something mean. Generally, when you fill someone's bucket, you fill yours too. When you do something nice for someone or someone does it for you, your bucket is full of whatever you want: huge guns, lions, rainbows, etc. When someone is mean to you or you're mean to someone else, your bucket gets empty.
Now some people are just down-in-the-dumps people all the time. Even if they refuse to have their bucket filled, do it anyway. If nothing else, you have the satisfaction that comes from trying to raise someone's spirits, because it makes you feel like a good person. Sometimes you can only fill one person's bucket. THAT'S OK. Don't feel bad because you can't fill both people's buckets as long as you try. You fail not when you don't succeed, but when you don't even try to help.
Some people are only concerned about their buckets and that they're always swelling, but never about anyone else's. That is what occasionally makes me ashamed to bear the name human, because our race can be so self-centered, greedy, and self-absorbed. Really, do something for the people that have empty buckets, not just go "Oh, poor me" when yours is empty. For, if I may quote, " Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you." or "Do to others what you wish for yourself." or "Do to others what you want to be done to you." They all say the exact same thing: be nice and others will be nice to you.
Try to fill someone else's bucket today and every day. Who knows, you might just end up with a full bucket of your own.