It’s interesting to me the role that blogging has played in my life.  It has become, more than anything, a way for me to inspire myself….if that makes sense.  Situations I find myself dealing with often provide great revelations that I blog about so I can look back and remember what I learned and hopefully give insight, as simple as it may be, to others reading my blogs.  That said, I haven’t contributed much to the myspace blogosphere recently and am feeling the need to delve back into it. 

One of my most recently life experiences has been indefinitely valuable, on numerous levels, but most importantly, it has impressed upon me the magnitude of building up the people around us; be it the people we work with, people we are on the planning committee with, or the people we love.  Why??  Because people become like and move toward what they focus on.  If someone is constantly hearing how bad they are at life, or how big of a failure they are, just what, do you suppose, will happen to them??  They will move toward that and even if it isn’t currently a reality for them, it will start to become one.  However, if we find and relate the positive things about people they will move in the opposite direction and actually become better.

Finding and pointing out faults doesn’t make anyone better, and generally, unless it’s used in a constructive fashion to actually help someone overcome a fault, it has absolutely no merit.  My challenge for everyone would be to find the good in those around you, and tell them.  I’m not suggesting you tell your co-worker that they are amazing at making coffee if they are terrible at it.  I’m saying find what they truly are good at and build your praise on and around that.  And when we start looking for the good in others, I think we’ll all be surprised at the number of good things we might find…and just how positive of an impact looking for that good will have on us as well.