Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret. – Mary Kay Ash
Is it a wonderful, great, generous idea and practice to acknowledge and appreciate others?
Absolutely.
But you can’t give what you don’t see in yourself.
What can you appreciate about you today?
Take a minute and, sincerely, appreciate you.
Then, take that feeling, that deep understanding of how you’re worthy and talented, and project it outward.
Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. – Unknown Through our socialization, and because of our nature as humans, we become like those around us. We become like our families,…
One of the hardest things we could ever do is meet the expectation we hold of others, ourselves. That thought occurred to me this morning as I was driving to Starbucks for my morning coffee today. I was noticing that I was (allowing myself to) get annoyed with the driver in front of me. I…
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato Because without the beginning, there’s nothing. (And the beginning often sets the stage for the rest of the task/project/journey.) When in doubt, begin.
Are you doing what really matters? And that really matters to you? If not, you must do two things: 1) do the job right in front of you the absolute best you can; and 2) create and work a plan to get you the work you want. I know what you’re saying: “I can’t do…
Habits are powerful, generally hidden, drivers of behavior. My basic understanding of habits is that there’s a cue, a response and a reward (or result) (that is seen as desirable and/or functional). Many habits are not, actually, good for us, and/or those around us. * * * A question some coaches (myself included) like to ask…
You can persuade/force/coerce someone to change their behavior, but that doesn’t equal change. Actual change, lasting change, comes from within. It is something that the person must authentically want. Otherwise, it’s just temporary behavior change . . . .