Be Loud With Your Goodness

The other day I was checking out at Walgreens. To be honest, I wasn’t in the best mood. When I got to the checkout, the clerk was kind, soft spoken, and honestly a great looking guy! In that moment I thought, “Give him a compliment. He has great skin, a great smile.” But because of the mood I was in, I second guessed myself, gave a smile, and walked out the door.

Later that night, once the house had settled and I could finally sit, that moment came back to me. I felt selfish for not speaking up. That compliment wasn’t for me. It was for him. Maybe he would’ve brushed it off and thought, “Who is this strange lady hitting on me?” Or maybe, just maybe, it would’ve been the exact thing he needed to hear that day. I’ll never hold back from these moments again. If anything, I am going to double down.

Now my wheels are turning and it got me thinking even deeper. We’re living in a world where we’re starting to forget that we’re all human beings. The person driving the Amazon truck to your house every single day isn’t just a delivery driver. That’s a human being. The person serving you food at a restaurant isn’t just a server. The person helping you over the phone - yep that’s a person with a family, with struggles, hopes, and dreams just like you.

We’re only here for such a short time, and as a species, we should be taking care of one another. Even if we don’t like someone, even if we’re not into the same things, we can still choose to treat them with respect. We can still choose kindness. If more people did that, it could shift the way our communities feel. It could truly change the way we move through the world together.

Because here’s the truth: we don’t control the wars, the politics, or the chaos that scrolls across our feeds. But we do control the small things. A compliment. A door held open. A stranger treated with dignity. These actions ripple out further than we’ll ever see.

Imagine if every good person you know decided, every day, to let their goodness show. Imagine if we went out our way or took that extra second to speak life into someone else, to be generous with words and actions. That’s how communities grow stronger. That’s how the world shifts, not overnight, but through a chorus of daily, ordinary acts that add up to something extraordinary.

So let’s not be stingy with our kindness. Let’s be bold with it. Let’s be loud with it. Because in the end, the world doesn’t change because good people stay quiet. It changes because they choose to speak, act, and show up in the little moments.

Coach Amber