The Gift and Our Search for Meaning with Leigh Clark

Many of us seek greater meaning in our life. What is it all for? Listen to Leigh’s journey as she lives this question and the innumerable ways she has touched others’ lives and transformed her own. Your sharing of your gifts to serve others’ needs will come back to you tenfold.

Leigh is the founder of Kindleigh, a non-profit that makes the world a better place through acts of kindness. Through helping to uplift others Leigh has found her purpose, and her hope is to inspire others to live their best life by sharing their own positivity.

Quotes to remember: 

“We and everyone else want to be seen, recognized, acknowledged.”

“When you get criticized… you probably just reached a really large audience with your message.”

“I’m not going to take someone else’s bad behavior and make it mine.”

“We should strive to be a kaleidoscope of a human.”

Takeaways:

• Where our skills and interest meet others’ needs is where we find meaning
• Kindness is a tool not only to be generous to others but also to ourselves
• An act of kindness doesn’t have to be huge; acknowledging someone’s humanity is most important
• Our perspective has been created by a million small moments
• Put yourself out there from a place of your own values rather than for validation
• If we do the work of investigating criticism, we can only learn from it
• Is it not strength to take the higher road than to respond to a low blow with a lower one?
• Let us look inwardly for the resources rather than outwardly signs of them
• Your generosity may return to you in unexpected ways from unexpected sources
• Don’t let the world harden your heart

What you’ll learn:

• The circumstances that led to Leigh’s search for greater meaning in her life
• Various ways you can practice kindness and generosity
• How to cultivate your empathy, even for those you disagree with
• Wisdom for dealing with criticism
• How practicing kindness has altered Leigh’s relationship with the world at large

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.kindleigh.org/
• The United Way
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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