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.
If the unexamined life is not worth living, . . . it’s equally true that the unlived life is not worth examining. – Parker Palmer This quote pretty much speaks for itself. Yes, we must examine our lives, and ourselves, continually throughout our lives, but that’s only half of what’s necessary. We must have a…
“People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.” – Zig Ziglar In fact, emotions are why we do everything. Logical, thoughtful, consideration may be a precursor to action, but without the animating energy of emotions nothing happens. Yes, our thoughts determine our lives, but emotions actually create our lives. I recently had…
The path to a better life is more of a mining operation than a manufacturing one. – George Pransky What I think Pransky is saying here is that having a better life (which comes from being (behaving as) a better person) comes not from getting something from outside yourself or making yourself into something else,…
I’ve written a few posts on “how coaching works” and wanted to combine them in one easier to find/read place; three of them are “mashed-up” below: ********** The below post was originally published on August 8, 2011, here DOES COACHING WORK? YES. “Coaching is hot.” “Coaching is in.” “Coaching is how smart people achieve goals…
A little quickie for your Monday morning: The worst phrase, just about ever, is “I can’t do that because… ” I’ve been hearing that a fair bit lately, or I’ve been noticing more lately. Mostly it’s others saying it, but sometimes it’s – in one for or another – in my head. When we say I can’t…
Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect. – T. Harv Eker The question: “how are things?” usually gets me to thinking about what Thomas Leonard calls the Perfection of Now. Or, how…