Encourage Those Around You

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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”565px” height=”” background_color=”#c9c9c9″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[/dropshadowbox]

Encouraging people that you are close to should be something that you want to do for everyone, right?

I mean think of how it makes you feel when someone else encourages you. It makes you feel like you finally hit a homerun and can take on the world. Your perspective instantly changes. On the other hand, you may be the one who encourages everyone else around you. Being that person who looks for opportunities to notice when other people achieve greatness and then congratulating and motivating them is a special quality to have.  It is a selfless act. A lot of people aren’t geared to look outward at times and may not even feel that they need to set aside time to help others in the area of encouragement. This quality is learned, so it may not even be on your radar. But, the fact is that encouraging others is a special moment that can be part of each day that makes another person’s day better and that is enough to get excited about.

So, here are three things to think about when looking for opportunities to uplift those around you:

1. I don’t care who you are… Everyone needs encouragement.

You would be lying if you told me that you hate when people encourage you. Even if you don’t like attention, the fact that someone else notices when you are excelling in an area motivates you to keep doing great and even get better in that area. Surround yourself with those that encourage and see how you keep growing in leaps and bounds. Not only that, but you will notice encouraging those around you is contagious when you feel that being displayed from others towards you.

Motivation and encouragement propels more right action.

2. Encouragement doesn’t need an invitation.

For most times you will speak into someone’s life they will first need to let you in, but encouragement doesn’t need that. You just need to speak love into someone’s life. It really is that easy. Start today by taking the time to notice where those close to you excel in and point it out in public. Remember to praise in public, but critique in private.

Start noticing the good in others today.

3.Encouragement influences others and inspires them to give away more of it.

You may have to be the one who starts encouraging others. From my experience there are enough people who choose to focus on negativity and want to stay there. Don’t be that person. If you want to call yourself a leader, your mindset has to become about others, not yourself.

Be a leader. It starts with you.

If this practice of giving away encouragement to others comes natural to you, then you already know how this simple practice works. If not, then the “Treat others how you want to be treated…” Matthew 7:12 Golden Rule principle applies. Don’t hold on to encouragement… Give it away.

Does encouraging others come natural to you? You can leave your comment below.