You may not realize it yet, but encouraging other people is also a way to encourage yourself.  Personal growth and self-improvement are worthwhile goals because the related confidence and self-esteem that ensues trickles over into other areas of your life and generates the energy you benefit from to move ahead. Consider these golden nuggets of encouragement. You're reminded that what goes around will bounce back and enrich you, if only you believe in the power of shared goals.

1) Highlight what people do well. Anyone can criticize or correct in ways that make people feel bad, but what does that really achieve? Everyone makes mistakes. That's human. The question is, what do we learn from it? Find ways to boost esteem that inspire people to sharpen goals to do better next time. How you choose to raise awareness can also motivate others while it also energizes or rejuvenates you. Sharing your own lessons learned also has potential to be mutually-benefical.

2) Identify ways to move ahead. It's common for people to shy away from or refuse change, but dismissing ideas without consideration could be foolhardy. Inviting comments from others can enable you to better yourself and whatever projects are on hand. The fact you appreciate outside views reveals you respect and value others which is likely one of your goals to experience. Each person has capacities to grow to become a better person. As you welcome constructive advice, you'll expand your potential and reveal how people could benefit from similar initiatives.

3) Compliment others. To recognize talents and skills in other people enables them to feel good about themselves. Praising accomplishments and sharing a sense of excitement will attract emotions and experiences in positive ways. Building friendships based on honesty and sincerity is another way to build inner strength you can apply to be productive throughout your life. This can be a refreshing experience that spreads in people, teams and vision. Sensing optimism will reflect back.

4) Take pride in all outcomes. Victory is a state of mind. As you express how and why individuals seem to progress in areas of interests, you discover you have power to build confidence. You can express gratitude for efforts exerted by others and draw attention to the experience they obtain, no matter what the end result. This shows people that they create and shape their own expectations.

5) Grasp that "feeling right"starts inside.When you demonstrate to people the big benefits of nurturing self-growth, they will gain new impetus to explore ways to learn themselves. As you choose to inject enthusiasm into everything you do, this attitude will prove contagious. The idea of overcoming experiences that seem threatening begins with the outlook that you can do it. Teach this and you'll believe in it too.