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Favours

The Ancient Greeks used to go on long journeys to re-discover lost parts of themselves... Travelling can change our lives...but even very very small actions...even a split second thought can change the course of our lives.

For most of us it is normal to do favours for family and friends but it is much rarer to do favours for people we don't like. However, it is in doing favours for people that we DON'T like that attracts unexpected rewards.

A couple of days ago, I received an e-mail from someone on an online discussion group requesting a small favour. Over the last 4 years I have grown to dislike this particular person and did not need to reply to her request as I wasn't being asked directly anyway. I was only one person out of perhaps a thousand that could have responded from this forum.

For some reason, surprisingly, I e-mailed a response to her question. In doing so, I needed to access a different e-mail account that I rarely use and found there some requests for private teaching which almost immediately earned me a considerable sum of money, an e-mail from my brother in India which I would have missed otherwise, AND this led to the offer of work at a University in Palestine. The cumulated impact of all three of these was immense as all I did was ONE SMALL ACTION that was different from usual. I decided to do a small favour for an ungrateful, unpleasant and in my view undeserving person, and in the process of doing something that was beyond my normal realm, I opened up doors to a wealth of opportunities that make my world a bigger place!

What could you do today that is just a tiny bit out of the ordinary, creative and life-enhancing for someone you don't like or appreciate?

Most of the time when we do such favours for people it may just confirm our basic opinions about them. They are not worth it! We love to prove ourselves right don't we?!. But wait for that time when you are not expecting anything in return and a whole new world opens up....now THAT could lead to a really adventurous journey from the comfort of your own home!

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