Who told you that?

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We are a collective of memories of what has been spoken over us.

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One word of encouragement and we beam.

One word of criticism and we begin to shrink back.

There is an art to encouraging others to new levels without a trace of criticism.

The first and most important step in being able to do this is....

You think of the person you want to help only in the positive.

You have to see them as already able to go to the next level in whatever you seek to encourage them on.

This means only forgiveness, and genuine love in your spirit so they will know they can trust you.

What we say has power.

We become like the people we hang around.

We should all have a couple of people in our lives who can tell us what we need to work on, what new levels they see us able to achieve.

Encouragement spoken in love....

Overcoming past habits because we are developing new and better ones.

Helping people do this....

Learning to be better myself....

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Just makes a girl wanna smile.

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