Feel Your Best

By: Ben DeGeorge

The best way to feel your best is to help others.

The best way to help others is by using three intangible, free, powerful and often underutilized tools; kindness, respect and admiration.

If you can show others kindness, respect and admiration, you will experience the ultimate high, build the best friendships and eventually, see the greatest success and happiness in your life.

How well do you show these right now? Probably not as well as you could.

If you are able to do these three things really well, you will receive them from others.

How should you use kindness? First, you must stop thinking about yourself and your own needs. Second, you must be aware of others feelings, sense of comfort and pride. Then you need to shape your actions towards other people around their feelings.

Try smiling more.

How should you attain genuine respect for others? Realize that everyone has value. Also realize that everyone is able to do something better than you. In that, you can learn from that person. If you can learn from someone, you can respect them.

How should you show admiration? As I mentioned, everyone is better than you at something. Identify someone else's strengths and give them recognition for it. Let people know you admire them and why. It is a rare treat to receive a genuine compliment.

Everyone needs to feel respected. Everyone feels validated when others are kind and proud when others admire them.

Your words and your actions either tear people down or build them up. - Joseph Norman

Every action you take with others has meaning and has an effect upon that person. Keep this in mind, and act with care and compassion.

Repeat: The best way to feel your best is to help others. Using kindness, respect and admiration is the easiest way to help others.

Quote Lovers

Sometimes you just need a good quote to get you back on the right track. Here are a few that might help!

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Reading is no substitute for action. - Colleen Wainwright

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. - Ayn Rand

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda

If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson

A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Fuller

He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin

The truth is more important then the facts. Frank Lloyd Wright

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein