Indeed, the extent to which Encouragement can yield result cannot be overemphasized. Everybody who lives needs encouragement to pull through. As we live daily, we come to a point in our lives where we pause and desire something to push us up in life. Sometimes it is deliberate, and sometimes it is not deliberate. But it is high time we start to make deliberate efforts of supporting one another through Encouragement.
Encouragement is the act of encouraging someone to do something. Encourage on the other hand means to give somebody support, courage or hope. It is the ability to persuade somebody to carry out a task especially by making the task easier to be done or helping the person believe it is the right thing to be done.
Permit me to categorize Encouragement into three.
1. Encouragement of the Words
2. Encouragement of Resources
3. Encouragement of Conduct
When I was growing up as a young boy, my parents always said so many things to me. Positive things when I did well, negative things when I did wrong. I could see how my parents conducted themselves especially in public and when they find themselves in difficult situations such as financial constraint, neighborhood crisis, educational pursuit, work and business challenges. I also saw how my elder siblings struggled through school and entrepreneurship. These activities built resilience in me. I saw the need to make goals and work towards achieving them.
Another scenario is when I got to the University. I was fortunate to meet a friend who made me realize I can achieve anything as long as I put my mind, understand the how and put my resources into it. Initially I thought only special people are made to do special kind of activities. My friend opened my eyes to the reality of the fact that in life, I have to create my own space and live my life. I won't forget a statement made by my pastor; WHAT IS CONCEIVABLE IS ACHIEVABLE. It was like the words are engraved on the very surface of my heart.
Your simple words of encouragement counts.
So, an important key to achieving goals is Encouragement. It is sad that not many people see the need to encourage others. It is equally sad that not many are open to encouragement. If we stay positive to these, we would be building a very strong and fruitful society especially for the younger ones.
The lack of encouragement can be terrible. People end up depressed, sad, feel terrible because they lack encouragement. Some even attempt suicide as a result. This goes to show how important encouragement can be. People with many great dreams abandon their dreams for lack of encouragement. In order to build a great Community and nation, we need to deliberately and Personally adopt this virtue of encouragement for a better tomorrow.
To repeat, if you cannot encourage in words, you can give your resources. And if you cannot give your resources, you can live an encouraging exemplary life.
This is my response to the Contest on #QC Community on the theme Encouragement.