On the wall of my friends office hung a princess mirror.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t just any princess mirror, it was a Disney princess mirror that talked to you when you looked into the mirror, stating things like \u201cthat color looks lovely on you\u201d and \u201cyou are so pretty\u201d. It had to be my FAVORITE mirror ever! I recall standing in front of her mirror one day, listening to it compliment me thinking to myself, \u201cEveryone needs a princess mirror!\u201d<\/p>\n
We all have our bad days and our tough days and there is never really any day that we wouldn\u2019t benefit from having a princess mirror tell us that we are awesome and gorgeous and wonderful and loved. I have never met anyone who DOESN\u2019T need to hear that from others. We all need moral support. We all need someone to tell us we are fabulous and needed. And frankly I think most of us don\u2019t get to hear it enough. We all get so busy with our own lives that we don\u2019t stop to tell it to other people and they don\u2019t stop to tell it to us. Yet, we all need it and we could all use that pick me up every day.<\/p>\n
Why should you go out of your way to encourage someone else?<\/p>\n
\u201cNote how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.\u201d–George Adams<\/span><\/p>\n What impact can you have when you encourage someone else?<\/p>\n \u201cFlatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.\u201d –William Arthur Ward<\/span><\/p>\n When does encouragement matter the most?<\/p>\n \u201cA word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.\u201d –Unknown Author<\/span><\/p>\n How can encouraging someone bring out their best?<\/p>\n \u201cTreat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.\u201d –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n Now I share all of that with you so we can all remember how important it is to encourage those around us, but in addition to that I think we all need remember to apply the same philosophy for how we treat ourselves.\u00a0 If we treat ourselves like we are what we ought to be then we will help ourselves become what we are capable of being!!! We need to be our own princess mirror that tells the reflection it sees in the mirror \u201cYOU ARE GORGEOUS!\u201d \u201cYou are worthwhile\u201d \u201cYou are a good person\u201d \u201cYou are destined for greatness\u201d \u201cYou are needed, you are valued, and you make a difference for the better in this world\u201d We need to be our own biggest cheerleader.<\/p>\n God loves and values every one of us equally and we all have special gifts and talents that we brought into this world to help make it a better place. That makes you special and that makes you beautiful and that makes you important. Believe in yourself. And most important, ENCOURAGE YOURSELF! And when you look in your mirror and say \u201cMirror, mirror on the wall\u2026.make sure it says back to you that YOU ARE GORGEOUS! INSIDE AND OUT! And then go out into the world and be just that.<\/p>\n Love to all of you on this Valentine\u2019s weekend!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the wall of my friends office hung a princess mirror.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t just any princess mirror, it was a Disney princess mirror that talked to you when you looked into the mirror, stating things like \u201cthat color looks lovely on you\u201d and \u201cyou are so pretty\u201d. It had to be my FAVORITE mirror ever! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,1667,393,1554,2454,945,1719,1792,3530,591,30,792,29,2535,2074,100,439,35,3344,3531,630,53,3534,3532,3135,271,28,579,938,3535,1510,3533],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attitude","tag-bad-day","tag-best","tag-build-up","tag-cheerleader","tag-compliment","tag-difference","tag-encouragement","tag-flattery","tag-friendship","tag-gift","tag-gifts","tag-god","tag-good-day","tag-gorgeous","tag-greatness","tag-inspire","tag-love","tag-mirror","tag-moral-support","tag-motivate","tag-motivation","tag-needed","tag-ourselves","tag-pretty","tag-princess","tag-talents","tag-valentine","tag-value","tag-valued","tag-wonderful","tag-worthwhile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}