Today is national encouragement day. A day to encourage you do to do all the good in your life. How often are you taking the time to encourage yourself? It’s easy to be the voice of light to someone else. However, the same energy that you give to others you must also take the time to give yourself.
What Impact are you making in the world?
Ask yourself often. If someone asked the people around, you to name a few things that you do to uplift your inner circle what would they say? Would they have something positive to say? If not there lies the work. You should be a beacon and a light to those in your circle and beyond. For instance, a few days ago my kids and I were at a baseball game. While at that game a lady that I knew but the kids didn’t know was treating them with all kinds of kindness. It was before I even had the opportunity to introduce her to them. When I walked back, they immediately told me of this amazing woman they encountered.
When I realized who it was, I immediately smiled. I knew that she was a light when she’s around me. The kids experienced the same light that I feel when I am around her. It’s simple we need more people making an impact. There are some who can make global impact. We need those trailblazers too. However, the local impact of knowing that someone can count on you to be great in a dark place means a lot too.
Encouragement is your Inner Voice and Strength
Like my Great-grandmother would say if you just “live a little” you will see things go left in your life. You will fail, fall, or bruise but it doesn’t mean you have to quit. When life is hard its your inner voice that becomes your strength. If you are easily the one who. gives up, you need to strengthen your inner voice. Sometimes we talk ourselves out of our blessings. Usually, self-doubt is the culprit. From telling ourselves we are either too big or too small to do something or reminding ourselves that we don’t have enough resources to do the things that we want is the biggest lie we believe.
Trust the Process Daily
Trust the process even when the process brings strain. For instance, when I started the blog, it could barely get past my immediate family or friends reading it let alone strangers. I had no laptop, no way of knowing how to market my website that was free by the way and my early social media usage was cringe worthy. However now at over one million views on the blog alone, little can be great. I have partnered with amazing companies and people who took me under their wings and showed me the ropes. It only took a small seed of desire to want to write. That seed has grown and continues to grow.
My husband reminded me this week of the early years when not even he understood my vision. Just goes to show you that you don’t even need those closest to you to understand it. One thing that can’t be denied is that they can’t stop a dream.
Encourage Yourself Everyday- Encouragement Push
When was the last time you were your own hype person? The ability to channel your dopeness is not always an easy gift. You must be able to remind yourself daily that no matter of your failures you aren’t one. That is one thing that when I speak to people who feel broken it’s never what happened to them that feels impossible. It’s the feeling that they are a failure. When you encourage yourself and remind yourself that what you feel and what is real don’t always have to align you can do big things. So today on all days encourage others but also encourage yourself.
Pick up that dream that you let sit collecting dust to be rejuvenated again. Start over. Begin today with your plans. You are what the world needs you must be the first to believe it. Don’t forget to spread encouragement all over it looks good on you to build up others and yourself.
