What Makes A Great Life?
“We Make A Living By What We Get,
But We Make A Life By What We Give”
- Winston Churchill
With this quote, Churchill emphasized the importance of giving to others as a way of finding fulfillment and purpose in life.
At A Step At A Time Care, our incredible clinical staff strives to bring your little ones and families the most enriching experience and successful outcomes every day.
For this, we thank them deeply!
What makes a great life?
One must receive enough to pay one’s bills. This is a given.
However, as an old mentor once told me, when you give to the world in some way, shape, or form, you become a part of the world.
At some level, you become part of something more than yourself.
And that gives you depth and meaning.
While giving is not the only component of a great life, it can be one aspect of one.
There is one caveat to this and a lesson that we aim to point out every day.
Caring for our staff
One wants to give from a place where one is also taking care of oneself - instead of being a martyr, where one gives by sacrificing oneself completely.
This doesn’t mean one waits to give. It means one does both.
A Step At A Time Care makes a point to stay close to all our clinical team members, making them feel supported, seen, heard, and appreciated.
We encourage our team members to recharge between sessions and offer creative ways to help them do so based on each personality type.
Families, our team members give all that they can - their time, their attention, their knowledge, their expertise, their compassion, their passion, and their ideas.
While maintaining professional boundaries in your home (our clinical team members are neither friends nor employees), please help us show them appreciation.
If you identify specific ways to show appreciation for and brighten the life of a specific team member, please email us so we can make it happen.
Note that because the exchange of gifts can lead to conflicts of interest, families should refrain from giving our staff gifts with a monetary value of more than $10 dollars. A gift is acceptable if it functions as an occasional expression of gratitude and does not result in financial benefit to the recipient. Instances of giving or accepting ongoing or cumulative gifts may rise to the level of a violation of this standard if the gifts become a regularly expected source of income or value to the recipient.
Safe to say that for all of A Step At A Time Care’s employees, if our lives included very little giving, we would quickly hit a ceiling on the satisfaction we receive from merely earning a living.
How well we live is largely determined, not by how much we get from life, but by how much we can give - to the little ones and the families we proudly serve.
We are deeply grateful to you for entrusting us with your little ones’ care and to our clinical team members for their dedication and expertise.
Thank you!
Tessa Brower, Founder and CEO