Inconvenience Yourself™ is a way of living and can be implemented in your personal and professional life.
Some suggested ways to incorporate Inconvenience Yourself™ in your life are provided below.
In Your Personal Life:
- Practice common courtesy
- Send a hand-written thank you note
- Perform random acts 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
“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
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