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Showers over Windermere from Holbeck Lane near Troutbeck.

Have You Filled a Bucket Today?

May 22, 2017
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Ten years ago I picked up a story book – aimed at kids four-nine, by Carol McCloud and couldn’t put it down.  I was in Jaffé and Neale’s eclectic, independent bookstore in Chipping Norton last weekend where I stumbled upon two copies of the 10th Anniversary edition which I picked up for grandkids Kendall and Chloe.

The humble Bucket book has turned into a Bucket Fillosophy with seven companion books available from bucketfillers101.com.

Like all great ideas, bucket-filling is a simple concept – it’s designed to help kids understand how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation and love by ‘filling buckets’.

In our 24×7 VUCA world we sometimes forget how unconditional generosity and random acts of kindness can make all concerned feel more positive and happier.

Personal wellbeing is a key element in sustainable peak performance – and filling buckets is one of the ten most potent behaviours in building our own wellbeing – and thus our own performance.

Wellbeing is important because:

  • It energises positivity and commitment to Purpose,
  • It enhances flow, productivity and performance,
  • The best companies to work for deliberately create happy work environments,
  • Happy companies significantly outperform their peer group.

And here are the ten things I mentioned earlier:

1. Progress towards meaningful goals contributes significantly to happiness,

2. Happy people take time to do things that give them pleasure,

3. Quality time with friends and family is top of the happiness list,

4. Doing altruistic things for others creates enduring happiness,

5. Expressing gratitude enhances your own wellbeing and that of the recipient,

6. Regular exercise increases happiness,

7. Positive experiences tend to provide more enduring happiness than tangible purchases,

8. Beyond satisfaction of needs, more money does not make people significantly happier,

9. People quickly adapt to material advances,

10.We get little enduring pleasure from short cuts.

Keep filling buckets and your bucket will always be full.

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