How to Live Out the Value of Friendship

Add value real people can feel by your presence, encouragement, empowerment, and praise. People feel cared about when others are present by intentional choice. People feel encouraged to know they are important to others. People are empowered to be their best when others believe in them. People who receive consistent praise feel good about who they are. These four practices add value real people feel. 

Presence

Intentional presence acknowledges to others your excitement to share time with them. Be genuine in your expression of feel good to be with people. Express full feeling how glad you are to see them and be with them. Allow your full range of emotion show how you look forward to your time together. A happy face smiling from the inside out of pure joy will follow.

Encouragement

Intentionally encourage people to keep on motivating themselves to enjoy who they are whatever their conditions. Make best effort to focus all your attention on them. Your presence and encouragement is the opportunity for them to build on feeling good.

Help them to know they are the entire center of your universe for the time you share together. Encourage their confidence by observing how well they manage the details of their life and relationships. Be aware you may be the only person bringing them encouragement.

Empowerment

Intentionally empower through consistently green lighting their dreams. Affirm their thoughts. Brainstorm during visits for ways to continually identify, define, and reach for personal goals. Empower, give power to the 'yes you can do it' spirit. See through their eyes their hopes and dreams. Help identify ways to accomplish those where possible.

Your regular and consistent presence, encouragement, and empowerment will give power to others to help them be and become more the person they want to be. Be genuine at all times. This will add value real people feel.

Praise

Praise is an experience people enjoy. Universally, people want to feel good at every age, stage, and condition.

Pour on praise like pouring syrup on waffles in melting butter. Make it sweet. Make the moment almost sensual. Make it feel good. Make it real. Make it a shared moment of mutual gratitude.

Intentionally be present, encourage, empower and praise others often. Add value real people feel.