What if we all call each other sweetheart today?
Posted February 1, 2022
I don’t go through a lot of drive throughs. I don’t like fast foods. I do like coffee. This morning when I went through a drive through to get a warm coffee before my 9am meeting, the lady gave me my coffee and she said the sweetest thing, it made my heart smile to be honest.
She said, “Here you go Sweetheart.”
I told her how she made my day with her kindness and she said, “We all need to be kinder to each other, don’t we?”
Then this afternoon a very nice plumber came to look at my water heater. Long story short, but I haven’t had a hot shower in a week. Cold showers in the winter are not for sissies. Damn near killed me to wash my hair yesterday. I will say washing your hair in nothing but super icy cold water makes it so shiny. Anyway, when this man gave me the quote for the new system. He said, “I hate to be the bearer of this sort of news sweetheart because it’s going to be pricey.” Ugh it was.
But again, that word. Sweetheart.
Those two experiences got me thinking. What if we looked at everyone and I mean everyone as if they were precious to us? So precious that we wanted to call them Sweetheart.
Last week I attended a mentorship coaching session. The presenter said that when we meet new people, we do this thing called “laddering”. We decide if that new person is a rung up or a rung down from us. The goal is NOT to do that. When you think of it, the people we admire the most don’t do that. They don’t make us feel they are better than we are.
I have a friend in NYC who runs a large international brand. He’s so crazy smart and cool and well mannered it could be almost intimidating. I tell him whenever I see him that anytime I get the chance to be in his company, I’ll take it. And you know why? It’s simply because of how he makes me feel. He makes me feel valued. He never makes me feel “less than”.
So, let’s do it. Even if you don’t say it out loud look at everyone as if they deserved to be called Sweetheart. Not in a creepy way, but in a real human being way. Let’s do it and see what happens….
P.S. I love you madly. If you took the time to read this far, I really hope you know.
