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Shelby Baclesse's avatar

Reading this way after you posted it, but loved every second of it. I especially love the one about complimenting the elderly. I work in a memory care center with individuals who have dementia, and the way that they all light up whenever you give them any compliment (they look handsome, their nails look nice - even if I literally was the one who painted them an hour earlier, that they're outfit looks good on them. They love it. They may not remember it shortly after, but in that moment it makes the biggest difference.

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rachel a. dawson's avatar

i loved every bit of this!!! glad you didn't stop at just 30 things.

you're a gift to this world, my friend

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Mel's avatar

This has brought me such joy today, thank you 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

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Joslyn's avatar

Such a great list! I am still working on so many of these, but the visual comparison in 47 I think may have actually broken my brain. Thanks for sharing, I will definitely be keeping this in mind when taking pictures in the future.

As for journaling, I’m so glad I took your advise a couple of years ago and just started doing it, instead of worrying if it was going to be good or bad. It’s just for me, so at the end of the day it really doesn’t matter what it looks like, but it has been such a great way for me to shift my focus to the positive aspects of life vs. the everyday hard things. Plus, I love having a place to put my printed pictures!

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Amber Nelson's avatar

There’s a lot of wisdom here. I loved reading your list and plan on implementing a few things that you mentioned ☺️

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Leigh Ann Underwood's avatar

You're so good! So good at writing! And I so admire your deep, insightful take on life. Love you, Ally-sun

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Jacqui's avatar

This was so totally spot on 1-71! Immediately sending to my mum and sister. 💕

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Christa's avatar

Spot on with #11. 😅

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Amy's avatar

Okkk this is amazing Allyson. I feel like some of these things I have picked up from you already (not getting pizza cut), some I couldn’t agree with more (solo movies!) others I love but haven’t really ever thought about. ESP the 10 out of 10. Man I will be thinking about that for a long time!

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dmg314's avatar

This was great! I’ll read it over and over!

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Allison's avatar

I didn’t know I needed this 😭

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Miya Preston's avatar

Reading this brought me so much joy!!! Such a great reminder that even the small things can make a difference 🥰

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Madison's avatar

This is the nicest thing I've read all day. I wanted to screenshot every single piece of advice!!

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Natasha's avatar

i love every single one of these! thank you for sharing!

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Audrey's avatar

loveeee this 😉

i took a screenshot of #71 because i never thought about that and now i want to talk about it in my journal haha! one simple compliment i've gotten multiple times in school from elementary to college was "your handwriting is good" and ofcourse that has stuck with me. i'm like yeah i have a good handwriting, i have something i'm naturally good at. more than four people told me so i believe it and that's cool i'm the friend with the good handwriting lol that's just one silly example but yeah 🤪😅

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JoVanna's avatar

70 things I didn't know I needed to know :) Thanks for sharing!

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