Hey friend, today, I can’t wait to share an experience I just had with you.  Listen in.  

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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in about 2 minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. 

I'm your host, Katie Jefcoat, and today, I just want to share with you (totally off the cuff) a quick story about kindness that happened to me earlier today.

I was at the post office getting some postcard stamps for the Kindness Cards that I'm sending out, which I am absolutely loving, it's so much fun. There was one guy working at the desk, and there were seven people in line. The printer for the actual mail postage kept getting jammed, the guy at the desk was really frustrated, the line was taking forever. 

Two guy in front of me, non native English speaker, was a very nice gentlemen who had some packages to send. He thought that he had to show the postman the contents of the package before he taped it up. But what he realized was that he was supposed to have already taped the box, and he didn't bring tape with him to the post office. 

The post office doesn't give people tape to tape up their packages (at least not at my post office). He told the guy look, there's a rack of tape and packing supplies, you can buy whatever tape you need, tape your boxes, come back, and I will finish your order. 

You could tell that this guy was frustrated. He walked away, he said, “I'm waiting in line for 45 minutes and now I've got to do this.” He was kind of huffing and puffing. He really thought he would get out of there pretty quick and he saw the really long line and thought maybe he had to go stand in the back of the line again. I can see this frustration. He was clearly frustrated. 

It just so happened that at the stop before the post office, I purchased packing tape. No lie! I purchased packing tape at the FedEx store at the stop before. And so I said, “hey, I have packing tape in my car. Let me go get it.” So I ran out to the car, I grabbed my brand spanking new, tons of packing tape, brought it back in, gave it to the guy and I said use as much as you want, here's your packing tape. 

He was so thankful! And I don't even know what came over me to think I needed more packing tape when I was at the FedEx store but maybe it was for this exact reason. I don't know - the universe does some funny things sometimes. But he was so appreciative. 

He used the packing tape, and he gave it back to me. I bought my postcard stamps. I was on my way, he got to cut back in line because the postman already had the labels printed and ready to go for him. And he was so thankful. 

You know how they talk about helpers, it makes you feel good. Well, of course, I felt great! I got to help somebody, I love that. He really appreciated the kindness when and could tell, he was very annoyed. In a way, I think maybe I was able to flip the script for him and I was able to turn his day around, he wasn't as frustrated at the post office and what a blessing that is. 

I just wanted to share with you how little acts of kindness make such a big difference and really have this ripple effect. Even the postman said, “thanks for helping out the customer”. He was in a better mood and it just felt like the air had gotten a little lighter. 

So, if that inspires you, I just hope that it does and go out and spread some kindness into the world. Don't forget, kindness really is contagious. 

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