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Baumgardner: Kindness is a superpower everyone can use

“What if you don’t respect or appreciate your spouse?”

That’s the question a woman asked social researcher Shaunti Feldhahn after she spoke at a conference on the topic of kindness.

Feldhahn encouraged her to take a 30-day Kindness Challenge. The steps are:

» Say nothing negative about that person – either to them or about them.

photo Julie Baumgardner

» Each day, find one positive thing to praise or affirm about that person. Then tell him or her, and tell someone else.