ENCOURAGING WORDS
Imagine how great it would be to have someone providing you
with a constant supply of encouragement. When you get in the habit of
encouraging yourself, that is exactly what you can have.
All day long, you are thinking and saying things to
yourself. You have the power to choose precisely what those thoughts and those
words will be.
Choose to make them positive, uplifting, and encouraging.
Make good use of the thousands of opportunities you get each day to provide
yourself with support and direction.
When you catch yourself mentally beating up on yourself,
decide to stop such destructive behavior right then and there. Instead, give
yourself a few words of real, sincere encouragement and notice how much more
energized and effective you immediately feel.
In addition, get in the habit of offering encouragement to
others whenever you get the chance. That will make you more likely to send even
more encouragement in your own direction.
During each waking moment, you are constantly thinking or talking
to yourself or others. Choose to use all that dialogue to move yourself and
your world in a positive direction.
-- Ralph Marston