“Once this is on the agenda of the Security Council we foresee a graduated approach to bringing additional pressure on the leadership in Tehran to achieve a negotiated settlement. The collective goal in Vienna is to encourage the leadership in Tehran to take those steps that will allow them to start regaining the confidence of the international community.”
It is in your replanting or transplanting that you can do some of your best work and expand your roots to grow, thrive, and flourish. Whether you have needed to change places physically or metaphorically, replanting and putting down new roots will encourage new possibilities.
“It's incredibly encouraging that our viewers haven't gotten hung up on the race thing. It's not about the fact that she's Asian and he's black. It's about the fact that she's a slob, and he's a neat freak. That's what the whole relationship is all about.”
My grandma loved to be on stage entertaining people. She loves to make people smile and laugh. She loves to brighten other people's day. She often calls perfect strangers her angel, as a way of witnessing, but also to encourage and build their self-esteem.
Empowering beliefs are ideas that launch us forward and help us to become the person we want to be. Empowering beliefs are freeing, encouraging, and inclusive; they nurture and uplift. When we find ourselves harboring a limiting belief, we need to replace it with one that cultivates joy.
“I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.”
Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.
The key thing to keep in mind is that people do change, but they do it in their own time, for their own reasons. That's why you can hope for change, you can encourage change, you can communicate that you want change, but there are never any guarantees that it will happen.
“Everything we do in the gym helps out someway with our explosion especially at my position (fullback). I always wanted to join the weightlifting team and was encouraged a little bit by coach Rice, so I decided to do it and have been for four years.”
“We are continuing to pursue a number of other investment team lift-outs and various bolt-on acquisitions globally. While I am encouraged by the progress we have already begun to make in realizing the full potential of this business, we have a lot more to do.”