Motivational Minute (13_016)

Quote of the day

"Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be." — Goethe

Consider:

Perhaps you’ve seen the classic movie “My Fair Lady” adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play “Pygmalion”. It is a story about a professor who makes a bet with this friend that he can turn an uneducated street girl, by the name of Eliza Doolittle, into an elegant lady. He does this primarily by treating her like a lady at all times until she begins to live up to his expectations of her. Actually he is not all that nice to her and I don’t endorse his methods but the principle that the movie,  and what the quote above brings out, is right on.

Don’t you want to be treated like what you could be, rather than how you are? If you treat others in this way, it will come back to you in like manner.

Take time to consider who you are treating the way they appear to be, and thus you’re making them worse, and who you are looking at with eyes of potential and therefore you’re helping to make them into who they should be. Depending on your inward findings make the appropriate adjustments.

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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