A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You
- 7h 20m 47s
- Donna Cameron
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- 2020
Being kind is something most of us do when it's easy and when it suits us. Being kind when we don't feel like it, or when all of our buttons are being pushed, is hard. But that's also when it's most needed; that's when it can defuse anger and even violence, when it can restore civility in our personal and virtual interactions. Kindness has the power to profoundly change our relationships with other people and with ourselves. It can, in fact, change the world.
In A Year of Living Kindly - using stories, observation, humor, and summaries of expert research - Donna Cameron shares her experience committing to 365 days of practicing kindness. She presents compelling research into the myriad benefits of kindness, including health, wealth, longevity, improved relationships, and personal and business success. She explores what a kind life entails, and what gets in the way of it. And she provides practical and experiential suggestions for how each of us can strengthen our kindness muscle so choosing a life of kindness becomes ever easier and more natural. An inspiring, practical guide that can help any listener make a commitment to kindness, A Year of Living Kindly shines a light on how we can create a better, safer, and more just world-and how you can be part of that transformation.
In this Audiobook
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Chapter 1 - Being Nice isn't the Same as Being Kind
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Chapter 2 - If I were Always Kind, I Wouldn't Be Doing This
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Chapter 3 - The Chasm Between Kindness and Unkindness
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Chapter 4 - Kindness and Indifference Cannot Coexist
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Chapter 5 - Perform Two Acts of Kindness and Call Me in the Morning
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Chapter 6 - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo: Kindness Alleviates Social Anxiety
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Chapter 7 - An Epidemic of Our Own Choosing
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Chapter 8 - The Business Case for Kindness
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Chapter 9 - The Power of the Pause
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Chapter 10 - Kindness Means Suspending Judgment
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Chapter 11 - Kindness and Keeping Score
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Chapter 12 - “Kill Transform 'em with Kindness”: A Lesson from My Mother
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Chapter 13 - Dancing with Discovery: Taking Time to Notice the Kindness in Your Life
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Chapter 14 - When Fear Gets in the Way of Kindness
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Chapter 15 - When We Don't Have Time for Kindness
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Chapter 16 - I Don't Have the Patience for This!
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Chapter 17 - Other Barriers to Kindness
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Chapter 18 - Rejecting Kindness
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Chapter 19 - On the Receiving End of Kindness
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Chapter 20 - It All Starts with Kindness to Self
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Chapter 21 - No Kindness is Ever Too Small
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Chapter 22 - Kindness and Abundance: Enough is Enough!
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Chapter 23 - Gratitude is a Companion to Kindness
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Chapter 24 - Kindness and Generosity: It's Not All about Money
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Chapter 25 - Pay Attention: Kindness Requires Presence
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Chapter 26 - Dancing with Understanding: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
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Chapter 27 - A Life of Kindness Requires Courage
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Chapter 28 - Kindness and Curiosity
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Chapter 29 - Kindness and Vulnerability
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Chapter 30 - Choosing to Be For or Against
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Chapter 31 - What Do You Want Your Legacy to Be?
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Chapter 32 - Extending Kindness to All: Kindness isn't Selective or Conditional
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Chapter 33 - Oh, the Stories We Tell!
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Chapter 34 - What are You Looking for (Really)?
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Chapter 35 - Big Bullies
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Chapter 36 - Little Bullies: Where it All Begins
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Chapter 37 - Bystanding…or Standing Up for Kindness?
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Chapter 38 - Choosing Our Cyber-Voices and Media Companions
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Chapter 39 - Dancing with Yes: Dance Like No One's Watching
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Chapter 40 - When My Kindness is Your “Yuck!”
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Chapter 41 - What If I Don't Feel Like Being Kind?
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Chapter 42 - Being Kind to People We Don't Like
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Chapter 43 - I'm Just Sayin'…Honesty isn't Always Kind
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Chapter 44 - When the Kindest Thing to Do is…Absolutely Nothing
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Chapter 45 - A Transformation or an Evolution? The Five Percent Plan
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Chapter 46 - What We Want Most for Our Kids
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Chapter 47 - Kindness to the Earth and All its Creatures
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Chapter 48 - Strategies for Bringing Kindness into Your Life
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Chapter 49 - Kind Actions That Cost Nothing and Take Little Time
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Chapter 50 - A Dozen Reasons to Choose Kindness
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Chapter 51 - The Lessons of Kindness
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Chapter 52 - The Never-Ending Dance: A Kindness Manifesto
