You know what’s so awesome about thinking about others instead of focusing on ourselves all the time? It’s actually good for us. Forbes recently featured an article that talked about how helping others reduces our own stress levels.3 Emily Ansell of Yale University School of Medicine offered, “Our research shows that when we help others we can also help ourselves….Stressful days usually lead us to have a worse mood and poorer mental health, but our findings suggest that if we do small things for others…we won’t feel as poorly on stressful days.”4
