When is the last time you heard—and I mean REALLY heard—a compliment?

It feels as though this society, in its false guise of praising modesty, has turned us blind and deaf to our own accomplishments and to the honest praise that they earn. But if we don’t appreciate our accomplishments, and don’t hear the tributes that they earn, pretty soon we end up wondering what we are working for. We lose our motivation, our desire. All we have left is self-discipline. And discipline without desire gets stale and old very, very quickly. And eventually, it fails.

I challenge you, this week, to open your eyes and ears and heart and soul and mind to compliments. Compliment yourself. Compliment others, and notice whether they are accepted or not. As uncomfortable as it may be, let yourself take it in. Feel how good it is.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 1:00 am and is filed under Weekly Challengers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.