7 Ways To Show Sympathy For People So You Can Go Far In Life Starting Today

Can I ask you a question?

How much love have you expressed for someone lately?

I bet it was for someone close to you wasn’t it?

Now let me ask you this.

Did you ever not express genuine love for someone outside of your family and friends, particularly someone who is going through a hard time even though you wanted to?

If that’s you, then this post is for you because I’ll discuss in detail the 7 ways that you can express sympathy for people in ways that will get you ahead in your career and in life.

Now before I start, I want you to know that you are really awesome.

No seriously, you are.

You might not understand it right now, but everything that makes you who you are (assuming that you are not a criminal or an evil person) is really special and unique.

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Now let’s get to the rest of the post.

Say Hi To Them

And this isn’t just saying hi to them like you are on the street.

This is saying hi to them in an enthusiastic way like you REALLY want to say hi to them.

Because let’s face it, almost everybody on the planet will pretty much ignore you even if they actually want to say hi to you.

Or rather, they don’t want to say hi to you at all.

So instead of being a ghost in the hall, why not be the sun and just approach them and say hi (unless you know they’re a creep)?

No one does this at all.

You’ll instantly be like the great kid at the ice cream shop asking mom to buy her some ice cream.

How can you not resist that?

Exactly.

The first thing that you would do is you’d want to go to them and say hi yourself.

Even though you might not get this at first in the real world, the real world will respond to you that way if you do it consistently.

A lot of times, opportunities will arise from that and maybe a long term relationship will stem that can elevate your career to the next level somehow.

Just think about it.

Imagine4 if you somehow randomly said hi to someone and this person was in so much awe of that one act that they asked you what you wanted to do in life and they helped you somehow.

Can you envision the possibilities that will come from that?

Potentially endless.

So say hi when it’s appropriate. It will come and reward you somehow.

Now with that hi, here’s what you will do to elevate the effect.

Smile At Them

I’ll be honest in saying that I am not the biggest fan of smiling.

It’s one of my least favorite things to do.

However, when you genuinely do it without trying to be manipulative with it, it can take you places.

Have you ever forgotten a person who genuinely smiled at you?

Never in a million years.

It is a brand in itself.

Just doing that and going above and beyond somehow will put you in a league of your own in this world and everyone will want to be around you.

Why does this work?

Because most people are secretly sad and they do not find any meaning in life somehow.

Their subconscious secretly wants to be touched and inspired in a way that gives them meaning in life and brings out the best in them.

That’s where a genuine smile comes in.

The genuine smile shows a person that there is meaning in life and that they can find it with just a simple switch of their mindset to “I can find a way in life. I can do this” instead of “All is lost. I’ll binge watch Netflix for the rest of my life.”

Imagine that you did this for at least one person and you felt extremely good inside.

How would that make you feel?

It’d feel pretty good wouldn’t it?

So if you have a genuine feeling for a person and it warrants a smile, do it. It’ll serve you well.

And with that, here’s another thing you can do to show sympathy to people starting today.

Do a Kind Favor For Them

This could literally be anything.

But like I’ve said before, it needs to be genuine because if it’s not, then people will see through it and you will pay dearly later on.

Let me ask you something. How did you feel when someone did you a favor?

Did it feel good, great, exciting, enlightening, etc.?

Comment below with your answers. It’d be great to hear.

I bet that your answer is close to being “It felt awesome.”

Exactly.

And because of that, it can pay big dividends for you in the long run due to a psychological law called the law of reciprocation, which says that if you do something for someone in a particular proportion, you will receive something back somehow in life at an equal proportion.

It can’t happen any other way.

And that’s the truth.

So if you want to do a genuine favor for someone, just do it.

You never know where it can lead.

And speaking on that topic of genuine favors, here’s one that you can do when warranted.

Compliment Someone For What They Did

This one is really a must.

Let me explain.

You really can’t help reaching out to a person who honestly did something for you or inspired you somehow.

There is no better feeling in the world than telling someone that you achieved something based on something that they said to you.

Do you want to know where that takes you?

Far.

Believe me.

It builds relationships fast and builds trust.

Read this article here for more on that topic.

And if you aren’t convinced, I encourage you to reflect on when you got a genuine compliment and what you felt that you needed to do when you received it.

Think about what will happen to you when you give compliments to those who you’ve taken advice from and implemented it.

Oh boy you have the whole world as your oyster.

Think about it.

And now for a simpler way of showing sympathy, but extremely effective when you do it genuinely.

Genuinely Hold the Door For People

I don’t know about you, but doesn’t it feel great when someone just holds the door for you?

You don’t have to work harder and you can just walk in with relative ease.

That’s the effect that you have on people when you do this genuinely.

You are improving their lives and you are being courteous to them.

Now when you combine this with the genuine smile and greeting them, you have a very powerful combination friend because nobody in the world will ignore that.

You’ll shine like a lighthouse in the dark sky to let everyone know to come to you when they sail ashore.

That is what holding the door can do for you at the right place at the right time.

Just remember this. Most people don’t give a shit for other people. They just go by their day with no regard for the well-being of others

Do yourself a favor and care somehow.

The word needs more of that.

And if you do, you’ll be rewarded dearly.

And here’s the other thing that you can do to show sympathy.

Have a Positive Attitude

This one should be so obvious that I shouldn’t even need to say it, but I will since it might not be obvious to you.

When you have a positive attitude, you immediately invoke a sense of awe in people that reminds them of the beauty in being true to yourself and seeing the bright side of things every time.

In turn, you are seen as a role model for people to follow.

You see, what happens with most people is they see the negatives of what will happen and never think of the positives or just think that the positives aren’t significant enough to do what they want to do.

Have you ever noticed why society is all glum and gloom?

This is why.

They never see the bright side in people. It takes a very special kind of person to do that and to do that shamelessly.

That’s why that when you genuinely show a positive attitude towards people and you impact their lives somehow, you are going to get rewarded big time.

In fact, let me show you this in full circle so that you understand what I mean.

I am inspired.

I am inspired to be my authentic self no matter what and to do what I need to do without the approval of others.

I am not going to say what that exact thing is, even though you can click here to figure it out, but I will say that I am motivated like no one has ever seen motivated to achieve what I want and I am not ashamed to admit that.

I do everything in my power in order to achieve what I want and I let no one take that away from me.

I am dead serious about that.

If you read the second article that I posted here, I know that you are convinced that I am truly going after what I want in life.

Now having said all of that, there are a select few people on this planet who inspired me to be my authentic self and to take action on what I want.

These specific people all had a positive attitude somehow and not an “Oh you can’t do that; it’s too risky and unorthodox” attitude.

I look up to these people like they are special to me somehow and when I achieve what I want, I will let them all know of that reality in a way that will change their lives for the better forever.

And this is exactly what will happen if you display a genuinely positive attitude towards people and help them in some capacity.

You will receive a lot of love back your way.

And it will feel so good when you get it.

You can start using this positive attitude as soon as possible in a situation that I will describe below.

Say Something To Someone Who Seems Sad

This is the real reason why there is so much misery in the world.

People just don’t speak up when they see someone who is sad.

I want you to listen to this song right here and really think about it and come back and read this post.

It is truly another day in paradise for everybody.

But, what they don’t realize is that it isn’t for others.

Someone might be going through depression or some sort of life event that might be making them extremely sad to the point where they don’t feel like talking to anybody and they become extremely lonely as a result.

Usually, you can notice this sadness somehow. You just feel it in you.

When you sense that, please do yourself, the person and the world a favor and approach them and ask them what is going on and what you can do to help them.

If there is one thing that the world needs more than anything, it’s this genuine understanding of what someone else is going through and seeing the problem through their perspective. This is how you truly win with people and how you get them to want to work with you.

This is how you become admired.

So if you want to climb the ladder in life, this is the answer right here.

I know this for a fact because I’ve seen it happen many times and I’m sure that you’ve seen it happen many times as well.

You just need a friendly reminder of that reality so you can start living life the way that you want to live life.

Read this article here if you want to know what to say.

And if there is one other thing to take away from this post, it’s this:

Don’t be a jackass.

Please. We have plenty of those already and they don’t serve anyone well. Just have a feeling of sympathy for people and make it known somehow and you will go far. Believe me.

And here’s another thing to take away.

I am going to leave a link to a book called “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie right here that explains this entire post in more detail and gives you way more than 7 secrets to master people so that you can get what you want out of life.

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Until next time,

This is Evan signing off.

PS: Comment below with how you will help someone today. It’d be great to see.