The Currency of Kindness

By Shereen Williams

The Currency of Kindness highlights the essentials and the strategies one must learn to deal and cope with all aspects of life- whether related to education, work, or personal life.
This book includes all the valuable, paramount lessons that would keep you in the right lane in your personal and professional life.
From defining the need for change in your life to normalizing and turning into your ultimate superpower, you would find all the strategies and tactics to fight off the trouble.
In this book, I have tried to discuss every nook and corner of life and how kindness plays a crucial role. The book will revolve around ideas highlighting actions to be taken against all odds in professional life. Each chapter is a thought, an action expected from the reader and encouraged to work on it after the message is delivered.
Having your mind and devising something that works for you and only you is never a mistake. Rather than follow the flowing rule book made ever since mankind began, it is a powerful thing to break away from it. In this book, you will explore this point of view that certain meticulously strategized actions may lead you to a better direction and overall an improved way of living.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Feb 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781543768879

Shereen Williams

Shereen Williams is an author, speaker, a certified life coach and corporate coach, change and transformation practitioner and the Chief of Kindness advocate. She works with organisations and individuals to elevate their true potential in mindset, leadership and the transformation of change. Shereen specializes in coaching woman and men and has helped many of her clients with her easy to apply strategies. She has also written programmes to help team development and mental wellbeing. Shereen is a strong advocate of Kindness and believes that it is our Inner greatness! “We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn’t weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.”- Jim Rohn

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgement

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1     Begin With Change

Chapter 2     Normalise The Novel

Chapter 3     Fight Before Leading

Chapter 4     Self-Awareness Before All

Chapter 5     Flex Your Nerves

Chapter 6     Balance The Criticalities

Chapter 7     Bridge The Gap

Chapter 8     Exhibit The Human Element

Chapter 9     Decide For Now

Chapter 10   Create New Landscapes

Author Bio

First and foremost, this was written in loving memory of Racheal Vahed – my mother, friend, cheerleader, and inspiration. Without you, the impetus to carve this book would never have been made.

Thank you, Mama, for just being selfless, real, and human!

I am forever grateful to you for teaching me all about being kind and brave.

Love you forever.

xxx

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Every step, every breath, every gift is from God.

I am here – thanking God for giving me the ability to put down the best way I can serve people in words.

Thank you to my wonderful family for reading every word of this book with your enthusiastic, optimistic view of the world and creating The Currency of Kindness with me.

To my beautiful, genuine mama – your inspiration and kindness is something I will never forget. Never. I will make it my duty to keep the legacy going. I promise.

To my fellow readers, thank you for taking the time to read this book. May it bring you an open mind and encourage you to love kindness to yourself.

We make a living by what we get. We

make a life by what we give.

— Winston Churchill

I have learned that people will forget what you

said, people will forget what you did, but people

will never forget how you made them feel.

— Maya Angelou

PREFACE

My tipping point . . .

I couldn’t look further than where I was – stuck, grieving, and just plain old, sick, and tired. People I spoke to had the same emotions everywhere I looked, and conversations started becoming draining and emotionally taxing.

Now I know better.

I was taught to be kind to myself all of my life.

So when I got to the reason that I was entertaining these emotions, it hit me like a ton of bricks. It made me want to get these noises out of my head. This confirmed that I needed to change my outlook and move on – that means only forward.

When you see things differently, you take action differently . . .

Kindness to yourself is key, and it’s your inner greatness.

I lost my mother, my absolute inspiration, role model, and cheerleader. My mama passed during the early stages of the COVID pandemic. As the chaos engulfed the world and travel came to a halt, I never had the opportunity to say goodbye, couldn’t go to the funeral, and was just devastated. Many of us can probably relate to this.

However, this is why I wrote this book – because my mama left me with her legacy of always keeping it real and, most of all, being human, being kind.

She would always say, ‘Kindness is your inner greatness.’

So I took all the lessons and created a diary of sorts. These are little takeaways on the most significant asset in our lives – our minds. Things don’t just fall from the sky and land in your lap; we have to make the best of what we have, never losing sight of where we came from. This grounds us.

Something that will always stay true to us and be our backbone is our spirituality. Be grateful for everything you have achieved, own it, and don’t underplay it. We are the backup plan, having faith in ourselves, keeping it real, staying human with the mindset that we can reframe, regroup, and make positive thoughts become things!

Are you conscious of the conversations that you have with yourself almost every minute that you are awake? We try so hard to make an impression on others, yet we talk to ourselves like we are our own worst enemy.

So here we are, creating that masterpiece of who we are and where we want to be! Let’s start