30 June
2010
Written by Brian Martin
The greatest shot in the arm is encouragement.
This is so important, and seems to me to be so basic! Whether it is encouragement from inside your family, or in the workplace, encouragement is vital.
However, there seems to be such a large number of people, both in families and in the workplace, who don’t seem to understand this.
I appreciate that Mom and Dad want their children to be the best that they can be. Yet I hear so many times, both from parents and from young people who want better relationships with each other, saying that they feel criticized by their parents, or their parents are telling me that they can’t help themselves but to indirectly make negative comments about their children’s exam results.
Maybe if we were to motivate ourselves and stay focused on helping people to be the best that they could be, including ourselves, maybe we’d be giving more encouragement.
Every little boy and little girl is constantly adopting a behavior of ‘Watch me, Mommy’, ‘Watch me, Daddy’. We want applause, we want to be recognized. So why don’t we do this, and in such a way, help people to the next step of being the best that they could be?
Please think about three people that you could give words of encouragement to, over the next thirty days, and let me know about your results.
Thank you.