Keith JonesNovember 15, 2015

2BeRe-University is all about supporting a stronger humanity. We care deeply about making a difference in the world. Amy, Heather and I embrace opportunities to connect with people and help them reach their goals. We flat out love people!

Loving others is easy to do when you have a purpose as big as ours. While I am no saint, I am clear that I am my happiest and most fulfilled when I am in the service of others and sending love to everyone. My capacity to contribute with an open heart continues to grow daily. One might think that I would be depleted of energy with all this giving. And I use to be until I tweaked a few things. Here’s what’s working for me:

• I practice empathy with everyone. I consistently try to put myself in someone else’s shoes. This helps me do what life coach Brendon Burchard describes as “Honoring People’s Struggle”. I have no idea what their life experience has been or what they might be going through at the time. But if I keep my ego from judging, this clears space for me to be empathetic and send them love. No matter what a person may do or say to me, I allow it to pass. I just send love.

• I am deeply interested in people. I have been told that I have a way of engaging with people that makes them feel connected. I want to learn from them, grow with them and know them. Their dreams, fears and possibilities matter to me. Helping and seeing them flourish inspires me to be my best.

• I don’t take on other people’s negative energy. I failed at this for a long time. In my early years of helping people reach their goals, I would take their struggles and problems home. Over time, I learned how to manage this. And although I was better at handling it, I was still taking their negative “stuff” on. As a result, my energy and capacity to work on my goals and help others was depleted. So I made a paradigm shift. I said no thanks to people’s gossip, jealousy, envy, judgment, victimhood, martyrdom, pessimism and other negative projections. If they wanted to move from those ego driven emotions to positive ones, I had their back. However, if they wanted to stay in that space, I chose to move on. Now I feel light and energized.

These practices have helped me be unconditionally loving to others and myself. And with a commitment to give off positive projections, rather than negative ones, I see the good in everyone no matter what they have done or might do. This frees me from negativity that could distract me and 2BeRe-U from fulfilling our mission to support humanity.

Take an interest in everyone you know and meet. It will enrich your life in immeasurable ways.

Keith