Inconvenience Yourself™ is a way of living and can be implemented in your personal and professional life.

In Your Personal Life:

• Practice common courtesy
• Send a hand-written thank you note
• Perform a random act of kindness
• Smile
• Spend quality time with your family, significant other, or friends
• Exercise
• Volunteer for a cause you support
• Reinforce the positive actions of others by letting them know you noticed what they did
• Respond timely to invitations which include “RSVP”
• Don’t put the host or hostess on the spot
• Vote
• Incorporate healthy eating habits into your lifestyle
• Give someone a compliment they deserve

Be a Good Neighbor

• Mow your lawn
• Pick up trash in your neighborhood
• Only leave garbage out on pick up days
• Keep noise down - even when you are having a party
• Smile, greet, and wave to your neighbors
• Don’t park vehicles across sidewalks
• Prepare for natural disasters, when you can (for example, stock up on at least 3 days of food and water before hurricane season)

Shopping/Errands

• Be patient
• Let someone go in line in front of you
• Take a parking space farther away, leaving the close one for someone else
• Hold the door open for someone
• Thank everyone who holds a door for you
• Return your shopping cart to the store or designated area in the parking lot
• Offer to run an errand for a neighbor

Things to Do at Work

• Be professional
• Be courteous to co-workers and customers
• Practice patience
• Be honest
• Have integrity

We want you to share your stories with us. What are some things that you do to show the Inconvenience Yourself™ way of living? Please send your stories to us by clicking HERE.