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\"\"<\/a>Do you know someone who always seems happy and brings sunlight into every room she or he enters? Is there a colleague at work who brings joy and laughter to the office everyday or is just consistently great at his or her job?<\/p>\n

You should tell them. Say it now before you say it at a funeral.<\/p>\n

Happily, I haven’t attended a lot of funerals but when I do I listen intently to the many heartfelt\u00a0 words of praise spoken through tears and wonder if anyone had said these things to the deceased when she was alive.<\/p>\n

Throughout my life words of praise have sustained me through rough times and inspired me through good times. It started when I was a child, as it should; timely, deserving praise nurtured me as I grew and learned about relationships, my career and life itself.<\/p>\n

I learned a lot from sincerely constructive criticism too but I couldn’t have without a sense of self respect. That came from honest attaboys.<\/p>\n

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune. – Sam Walton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think we spend too much time praising people behind their backs rather than to their faces. That’s sad.<\/p>\n

So, today I am going to begin a personal effort to praise someone daily, someone who really deserves it but probably doesn’t hear it very often.<\/p>\n

Like Sam said, it’s free and worth a fortune.<\/p>\n

Photo by\u00a0Aziz Acharki<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s spread the good word together on social media. I’ve created a new Facebook page that has no membership requirements except to praise someone worthy. Find it here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/312252449723087\/<\/i><\/p>\n

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