Motivational Minute (12_74)

Quote of the day:

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams. — Sidney Madwed

Consider:

There are many examples in history of people who did grand things, became someone great, discovered something unknown, invented something ingenious, wrote something creative, sang something beautiful, inspired others, and helped to make the world a better place through their efforts, all because someone had  faith in them.

Many of these great men and women were thought to have had little or no potential to begin with. There have been cases of great teachers, scientists, and inventors who were thought to be below average intellectually as children. Some great athletes have been told that they were too sick, handicapped, or weak to qualify for even the first level of competition. There have been cases of great writers and speakers who were hardly articulate when they first started their career. World-famous dancers, singers, and actors can remember being turned down at their first auditions due to "not having enough talent."

One such story is the famous Italian tenor opera singer, Enrique Caruso.

Many years ago a boy of ten was working in a factory in Naples. He longed to be a singer, but his first teacher discouraged him. "You can't sing," he said. "You haven't any voice at all. It sounds like the wind in the shutters."

But his mother, a poor peasant woman, put her arms about him and praised him and told him she knew he could sing, she could already see an improvement, and she went barefoot in order to save money to pay for his music lessons. That peasant mother's praise and encouragement changed the boy's life. His name was Enrico Caruso, and he became the greatest and most famous opera singer of his age.

Give the gift of encouragement whenever you can, you just may be an instrument to change someone’s life for the better.

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

(Compliments of http://www.actionvisioncoaching.com/)

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