Acts of Kindness

Something pretty cool happened during one of my live streams last week. It felt like a typical Friday. I fired up the stream and started talking about board games to the internet. Partway through the stream, I got a text from a random number.

“Hi, I found your TeeBird the other day. Lmk where you play most, and I can meet you or drop it off.”

I lost this disc six months ago when I was out playing last fall. I had almost gotten the memory of losing it out of my head, So to get this text out of the blue made my day.

You can see my reaction when I first read the text.

My Reaction

This stranger didn’t know that the disc he found was the first disc ever given to me to get into the hobby. He didn’t know it was the disc I used to get my first-ever eagle. All he knew was my name and number (Both were written on the disc.) I know it may sound cynical, but he could have never texted me and kept the disc he found on the course. Instead, he chose to text me, and that made my day. 

The disc golf community is really genuine; this isn’t the first time I’ve had a stranger text me saying they’ve found a disc of mine. (I’m not the best at keeping an eye on my discs in the fall….)

Kindness requires little effort.

Since going head first in this publishing endeavor, this has been very front of mind for me. I’ve had some incredible moments of support from places I wouldn’t expect. It’s solidified a mantra of mine I’ve had for a while “The energy you put out is the energy you receive.”

I wanted to finish today’s post by sharing one act of kindness that I got to experience. I got the opportunity to chat with Jamey Stegmaier about a month ago. The video is finally posted, which I’ll link below. 

When talking about this opportunity with friends and family behind the scenes, I always was met with the question, “How were you able to do that?” (about setting up an interview with Jamey on his channel)

My response to all those who asked “Well, it wasn’t too hard. I just listened to a bunch of Jamey’s content to learn and understand how he liked to be approached, and then I just did what he said!” 

In reality, I did nothing special or unique to warrant the opportunity. Jamey is just a genuine, kind person who cares about putting the right energy into the hobby and cares about people. It’s the one thing I admire most about him.

Kindness is infectious. It takes little effort to put out and immensely impacts those on the other end of it. Who are you going to impact with it today?