Sometimes a person needs help, but they’re hard to reach, and yet everything in you is screaming to offer assistance because they matter, and everything in your being tells you to break through and speak with them. To let them know you care and you’re there to support them in any way you can. You want to extend compassion, regardless of how they respond. You act from your values and your heart. It’s called – taking a goodwill risk.

You take a thoughtful, sometimes impassioned, and caring risk to help, even if the person turns you away; sometimes they don’t mean it, so you keep trying.

You keep wanting to have a good effect on them. You keep wanting them to know they are not alone in their challenge and concerns. Goodwill must be authentic, not transactional, and people see and feel the difference right away.

Keep trying to have goodwill and to see what that means.

Be steady with your goodwill, which includes wanting to understand their feelings and how they see the world right now. You will have to stand in their shoes, and want to do that because it is a thrilling act of courage to know and want to understand another. Grappling with who they are and their life questions.

Goodwill is the fierce desire to have a positive effect on someone else, with the active, creative hope to discover what that good effect is and a commitment to figure out how to make good things happen.

When you want to cultivate goodwill and have confidence in what that actually means, you break through any fears you may have and disrupt resistance because you can. It helps them feel less afraid, less alone. Goodwill is a mighty and kind force.

The last thing you want is to be cold and aloof, and taking goodwill risks opposes that.

We are all born with goodwill and a deep desire to care about others and their welfare. The question is, will we risk our own comfort and selfishness when someone else needs comfort and kindness?

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

Please share my Daily with your tribes.
This also matters – Thwart or Goodwill.

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