How full is my bucket

It’s been a while since I’m not reading a book from start to end, so these days I took some time and I read “How full is your bucket”. It is a small book that is worth it to read. The authors (grandfather and grandson) show how the positive attitude can dramatically influence our personal and professional lives. The basic premise of the book is that each of us has an invisible bucket which has to fill with positive emotions. In addition we have a dipper used to fill or empty our and others’ bucket.

The book goes on to give some examples of filling and emptying of buckets as well as some special strategies for bucket filling:

1. Prevent bucket dipping – ask yourself whether you are adding to or taking from another bucket.
2. Shine a light on what is right – don’t focus on the negative, spend time, energy and attention of what is right.
3. Make best friends – great relationships lead to increased satisfaction
4. Give unexpectedly – the gifts can be material, trust or respect, but given unexpectedly increases their bucket filling power
5. Reverse the Golden rule – “Do unto others as they would have you do unto them”.

Overall it is a book which deserves to be read.