In our continuing series on John Maxwell’s book, Becoming a Person of Influence, we find chapter six on mentoring and enlarging other people. John explains that we must build others up and help them reach their goals. We should share our time and talents with others and motivate them to do better.
Joel Osteen in his book, Become a Better You, brings up a great point about enlarging people. He says..
Remember your thoughts do not bless anybody but you…
The idea of this statement is that we need to let others know what we are thinking. We need to make the phone calls and write the e-mails to let people know when they are doing a great job. If we keep it to ourselves, the other person is not built up and consequently does not receive the blessing.
If I see you doing a great presentation, I need to stop by afterwards and give you a word of encouragement. If I read your blog post, and it captures my interest, I need to comment that you did a great job.
Simple words of encouragement can really help someone move to the next level in their career. They can help others take a leap of faith and start a new business.
This is an area that I have been focusing on in the past few weeks. Trying to learn how to better communicate with people. I realize that time commitments and my perfectionist streak hinder me from making quick replies to e-mail or leaving a quick comment on a blog.
Joel’s statement got me thinking… isn’t it better to send a short note saying "great job," than not sending a more elaborate note because I don’t have time to write it.
Rather than a two paragraph work of literary art, how about if I just leave a one sentence comment on someone’s blog? I can’t tell you how many of those two paragraph masterpieces I’ve had in my head that never were written.
Hmmm… how about a paraphrase… A few words written are much better than a perfect paragraph in my head…
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hi I believe that the key to true success is having a personal relationship with Jesus. Do you know Jesus? He is the one who died for your sins upon the cross. Will you consider asking Jesus into your life. He is only a prayer away! do it now! You wil not regret it.
True that! Success is based on where you will go after you die and not only what you will accomplish on earth
Hi Bev,
thank you for your reply. I’ve know the Lord for over 25 years and that relationship is truly the one thing that has kept me going through the good times and the tough times. One of my favorite books of the Bible is Proverbs, which provides a wonderful guide for living. Many of the subjects we talk about in this blog are based on biblical principles, from building each other up to developing a powerful faith.
True and lasting success is about the here and now but also about our eternal lives. Thanks for reminding me what is truly important.
John
I have always been one to inspire, encourage and build up my friends and family. The only problem being I have not done a very good job with myself. I just complete Having It All by John Assaraf and feel that I know have the strength to do this for myself. John definetly knows how to encourage and build up your faith in yourself to achieve your goals and dreams.
Great Blog. A couple things:
first, whenever I hear a speech I make it a point to tell the speaker great job and tell them one thing that they said that stood out to me.
Second, I think it was Zig Zigler who said that the way to make it to the top is to first help others make it.
Keep posting great blogs,
Dan Black danblackonleadership.blogspot.com
Thanks for your reply, Dan. As a speaker, hearing great feedback is priceless. I always like to pass out feedback cards so I have a good idea how the speech went and the impact on the audience. Hearing that "one thing" is really helpful for fine tuning a speech. So many times what I think is the most powerful point is really somewhere down the line.