Another Five Minute Friday....Encouragement

Encouragement

What a wonderful word.  Concept.  Goal.  I love to encourage - it brings out the best in me when I try and bring out the best in others.  I grew up with a daddy who always encouraged.  His greatest life-lesson to me was the "10 People Smile" lesson.

Somewhere around age 11, my daddy started a daily goal or making 10 people smile every day.  And family didn't count - they were an expectation!  It had to be 10 different people every day - so some days, if he hadn't been out of the office much or was under the weather, we got in the car and headed to the Mall.  We were on a mission - a joyful, crazy, loud and sometimes embarrassing mission to find 6 or 8 or whatever people to make smile so he could say he'd accomplished his daily goal.

I have carried this with me - as a PART of everything I am - since I was 11.  I enjoy making people smile.  I can't imagine not offering a smile to everyone I meet.  I have sacrificed "cool" because I will never be cool - or collected - or calm - or disinterested.  I can't be.  I am my daddy's daughter and that means I have to engage - to encourage - to make people smile.

I forget that not everyone is wired this way.  The nice thing about being a smiler/engager/encourager is that is usually brings out the smiler in others.  And that encourages me.  I am the mother who embarrasses her daughter the same way my daddy's over-the-top personality embarrassed me.  But on the other side of embarrassment is a love of people, an attitude of joy and a life long goal of making others smile.  Not a bad gift to give to the next generation!

Whew, that was fast - 5 minutes of writing (5 minutes and 12 seconds, to be exact) felt like 2 minutes tops!  But thank goodness for Five Minute Friday - it's the only time I've made myself sit down for this wonderful therapy.




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It’s easy to join in, just:

1. Check what the prompt is on my blog.
2. Write a post in only five minutes on that topic on your blog.
3. {And if you don’t have a blog, no worries! Just leave your writing as a comment on my post}
4. Link over here and invite friends to join in.
5. Select the permalink to your post {so not your blog url www.lisajobaker.com but your post url www.lisajobaker.com/2012/07/five-minute-friday-2/ }
6. Using the blue linky tool at the bottom of my Five Minute Friday post enter your link.
7. It will also walk you through selecting which photo you want to show up in the linky.
8. Your post will show up in our Five Minute Friday linky.
9. Be sure and encourage the person who linked up before you!

Our most important requirement for participation: There’s really only one absolute, no ifs, ands or buts about it Five Minute Friday rule: you must visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community.
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It’s easy to join in, just:

1. Check what the prompt is on my blog.
2. Write a post in only five minutes on that topic on your blog.
3. {And if you don’t have a blog, no worries! Just leave your writing as a comment on my post}
4. Link over here and invite friends to join in.
5. Select the permalink to your post {so not your blog url www.lisajobaker.com but your post url www.lisajobaker.com/2012/07/five-minute-friday-2/ }
6. Using the blue linky tool at the bottom of my Five Minute Friday post enter your link.
7. It will also walk you through selecting which photo you want to show up in the linky.
8. Your post will show up in our Five Minute Friday linky.
9. Be sure and encourage the person who linked up before you!

Our most important requirement for participation: There’s really only one absolute, no ifs, ands or buts about it Five Minute Friday rule: you must visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community.
- See more at: http://lisajobaker.com/five-minute-friday/#sthash.uv1JoULZ.dpuf

I'm hanging out with Lisa-Jo this morning.  Want in?  Here's the deal:

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.

3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community..

- See more at: http://www.findingheaventoday.com/2014/01/fmf-encouragement-from-former-porn-star.html#sthash.LySadolm.dpuf

I'm hanging out with Lisa-Jo this morning.  Want in?  Here's the deal:

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.

3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community..

- See more at: http://www.findingheaventoday.com/2014/01/fmf-encouragement-from-former-porn-star.html#sthash.LySadolm.dpuf

It’s easy to join in, just:

1. Check what the prompt is on my blog.
2. Write a post in only five minutes on that topic on your blog.
3. {And if you don’t have a blog, no worries! Just leave your writing as a comment on my post}
4. Link over here and invite friends to join in.
5. Select the permalink to your post {so not your blog url www.lisajobaker.com but your post url www.lisajobaker.com/2012/07/five-minute-friday-2/ }
6. Using the blue linky tool at the bottom of my Five Minute Friday post enter your link.
7. It will also walk you through selecting which photo you want to show up in the linky.
8. Your post will show up in our Five Minute Friday linky.
9. Be sure and encourage the person who linked up before you!

Our most important requirement for participation: There’s really only one absolute, no ifs, ands or buts about it Five Minute Friday rule: you must visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community.
- See more at: http://lisajobaker.com/five-minute-friday/#sthash.uv1JoULZ.dpuf

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.
3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community.. - See more at: http://lisajobaker.com/2014/01/why-your-words-matter/#sthash.9TYwiJPR.dpuf

I'm hanging out with Lisa-Jo this morning.  Want in?  Here's the deal:

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.

3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community..

- See more at: http://www.findingheaventoday.com/2014/01/fmf-encouragement-from-former-porn-star.html#sthash.LySadolm.dpuf

I'm hanging out with Lisa-Jo this morning.  Want in?  Here's the deal:

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.

3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community..

- See more at: http://www.findingheaventoday.com/2014/01/fmf-encouragement-from-former-porn-star.html#sthash.LySadolm.dpu

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.
3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community.. - See more at: http://lisajobaker.com/2014/01/why-your-words-matter/#sthash.9TYwiJPR.dpuf

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.
3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community.. - See more at: http://lisajobaker.com/2014/01/why-your-words-matter/#sthash.9TYwiJPR.dpuf