Encourage The Best In Others

If you treat man as he appears to be, you make him worse than he is.  But if you treat man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he should be.
--JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The man or woman who delights in, recognizes, and encourages the best in others is a joy to experience.  Perhaps there is no finer gift than the ability to sincerely validate another person.

There is always something good to be found in another.  We are often in need of personal connection and affirmation and there are many critics in life, but few celebrators.  Celebrators are those special people who can, with a word or a touch, affirm the worth of another.  Wouldn't we rather add to the beuaty and joy of the world than subtract from it?

When we celebrate the worth of others we make our own energy and electricity.  The people who know us will want to stand in our light to have their goodness exposed, and we will find ourselves surrounded by friends who bring us their best.

Today, let me practice being a celebrator of the goodness and worth of others.

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