Encouragement goes a long way, much further than you often realise. Having one person encourage and support you means the world to most of us.

Some people are lucky enough to have one best friend their whole life and being there for each other through thick and thin, good times and bad, life’s joy and life’s difficulties make life so much more enjoyable when you know someone, genuinely, has your back, and you have theirs.

But the beauty of encouragement is you don’t even need to be best friends with someone to encourage them. The wonderful thing about life is that you can give encouragement to a stranger, and be encouraged by a stranger. Some people are so generous and give their time, their knowledge, their skills or kind words.

Who needs encouragement

Everyone needs encouragement. Everyone needs more confidence in the ability to do something. Everybody is not so great at something – whatever that something is, they need encouragement to learn how to do it.

The one person who can encourage you constantly is yourself, and if you need help, then I encourage you to seek out a life coach, like myself, to support and encourage you to live the life you love.

The best way of encouraging yourself when you’re feeling down is to help someone else. Offer to do voluntary work. Helping others makes you feel good about yourself.

What encouragement can do

Encouragement when feeling down can lift you up. People share their perspective and, sometimes, it offers a way of thinking that you hadn’t considered before.

I have read articles where people have shared that they were in really in positions when they were stressed, or felt really lonely and had negative thoughts. Then because of an interaction with a stranger, it changed their world, because it saved their life.

You don’t always know the impact that you’ve had on someone but if every day you encourage someone, anyone, just know you have made a difference. Sometimes you’ll know what it is, but most times you won’t. Do you know who you are going to encourage today? Maybe, maybe not.