Sean Elliot Martin and Pancho Timmons are friends on a mission to change the world, one small act of kindness at a time. That's the subject of their new book, Quick and Easy World Change, which they released as an e-book.
The project is inspired by another kindness-related book Martin worked on years ago. The latest one takes parts of the first book and updates it with more inspiring stories and lists of little things people can do daily to spread goodness wherever they go. "Make a game of giving—you can assign yourself points for different little things," Martin said. "How many doors can I open each day for someone with their hands full? Or how many different ways can I help someone today? Or how many good deeds can I think of?" It also addresses the concept of compound kindness—a domino effect of good deeds. "If you are kind to one person, he's likely to be kind to two to five people," Martin said.
Both authors' lives have been impacted by the kindness of others, they each explained. Quick and Easy World Change is their way to pay those experiences forward. For Timmons, a teacher's mercy in college was a turning point for him. "I did all the things I was supposed to do-worked hard, studied hard-and ended up failing pretty miserably," he recalled. "But the professor pulled me aside and said, "You're an A student turning in C and D. work because you're clearly dyslexic (阅读障碍) and not getting the help you need." "That 5-minute conversation was the difference between dropping out of college and getting two master's degrees and now running two companies, Timmons said. "I've spent my career trying to pay that forward."
With the electronic version available, their plan is to release hard copies. The authors hope people will use it like a workbook, a document they can mark up, reflect on and use to make their lives-and the lives of others better.
