Your ripple effect
In 2017, a group of researchers started an experiment with employees at a Coca-Cola office in Madrid.
They broke up the employees into three groups: Givers, Receivers, and Controls.
The Givers were told to spend the next month doing kind things for the Receivers.
After a month, both the Givers and Receivers were happier.
That's incredible.
But the experiment went even further. The researchers wanted to know: what would the Receivers do, having benefitted from these acts of kindness?
It turns out that the Receivers paid it forward. They started doing kind things for other people — nearly 3x more kind acts than the Controls were doing!
They weren't just being kind back to the Givers, either. They were spreading it more broadly within their organization.
What you do has a ripple effect, touching not just the people around you, but the people around them, and then even the people around them.
If you're inspired to start a ripple effect, here's an intention you can use today:
Today, may I help others to find joy, knowing that this action ripples outwards in ways I cannot imagine, making our world a better place.
