How Full Is Your Bucket?

How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton.

Everyone has an invisible bucket. We are at our best when our buckets are overflowing - and at our worst when they are empty.

Everyone also has an invisible dipper. In each interaction, we can use our dipper to fill or dip from others' buckets.

Whenever we choose to fill others' buckets, we in turn fill our own.
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That quote pretty much sums up the book. Whenever you interact with people, you can choose to be cheerful, supporting, loving and all the things good in the world. When you do that, you are filling other people's buckets - and in turn filling your own because it feels good to talk pleasantly to and about other people.

During interactions, if you are unrelentingly negative in all they say and do, you are dipping from other people's buckets and sucking the life right out of them. Energy is drained from you and all people involved - and this is the level of consciousness that most people are stuck at.

You are the creator of your life. So, the title - How Full Is Your Bucket - is determined by how we interact with other people.

Give praise and compliments freely and frequently and you can rise above the negative level of consciousness and your bucket, in turn, will be overflowing too.