We just enjoy being inspired by the people we respect — our manager, our partner, someone who’s done amazing things. It makes us feel good, and it motivates us to do better things at college, at home, or in our communities themselves. Of those who inspire us, we can learn about inspiring powerful practices that we can use to help us in our lives.

I found that I’ve been hit by something this year, especially by all the struggles and difficulties that I’ve seen people face these last months. I was shocked by the stuff that everyday people around me — employers, customers, families, parents, kids, and other inspirers — do every day to make the planet a healthier, happier, and more prosperous place.

So, here is a list of practices that inspire me in my life every day. I hope they inspire you too and you’re just as lucky as I am.

Powerful Practices That Inspire Me Everyday

1. Support

Help arrives in all sorts of ways — from visiting an old woman across the street to assisting a partner in having a big job completed, to consoling a friend who is going through a tough break up. Contrary to the idea that people who help in big ways are doormats and will inevitably burn out or get walked on, research now shows that the biggest, most generous donors are also those who are the most successful and impactful in the world. Look around and you will find stories of extremely compassionate helpers everywhere.

2. Be An Active Listener

Everyone can hear other people’s words, but not many people can consciously pay attention to and comprehend those words to appreciate their meaning. Make eye contact while someone is talking to you about their issues and asking follow-up questions to reassure them that you care about what they are going through and want to learn where they come from as much as possible.

3. Learn

Every day, I work with people in their lives and work wanting more, different, or better. They come to the coaching as they already know that nothing will ever improve if they try to do the same things the same way. For me, one of the most inspiring qualities is being in collaboration with others who are ready and enthusiastic to know — about themselves, others, the environment, their restricting mentalities and behaviors, and how they can relate to what is not going well in their lives.

4. Stay Calm And Cool

The way people respond to threats or criticism strongly speaks to their capacity to inspire others. If you respond with more hate to hate, how are you better than the person who initiated the confrontation? (Hint: you’re not!) No matter how out-of-place or harsh an insult was, it’s best to stay calm and cool, because getting upset won’t make you feel better. Shrug off insults like they didn’t happen and inspire those who witness your unflinching nature to do the same.

5. Forgive

Forgiveness is the single most empowering and transforming act a human being might participate in. After releasing the pain and suffering they were holding on to, I saw therapy and coaching clients completely transformed, because they finally found a way to forgive. To me, forgiving looks squarely in front of someone or something hurtful, negative, upsetting or frustrating and chooses not to harbor hate or bitterness towards it. Forgiveness does not mean that you are a wimp and that you cannot make up for yourself. You realize that it hurts you more than it hurts someone else to hang on to the grief, rage, and frustration.

6. Teach

Examining those who are genuinely inspirational in their experience and abilities and others who are just pure fakers out for their benefit, it is obvious that those who have something important to say or do can’t help but demonstrate to us. They might not be the most polished or experienced in teaching, but those who care to move the world forward and to be of service want to share what they do for the betterment of others and the world. And they’re not preoccupied with what’s in it for them.

7. Empathize

In his pioneering work, Carl Rogers, One of the founders of humanist psychology, realized just how important it is to a person honestly. He said it was an important way to be helpful to just pay attention to his clients. The most effective helping act is where you listen to the sensations and emotions behind the words. They see that every day-people who can step in the shoes of someone and have genuine empathy are encouraging and therapeutic to be with them.

8. Keep Your Promises

If you volunteered to help with a cause, and are invited to a film or concert, you need to keep your word, no matter how much more fun the other thing might be. When a more fascinating chance presents itself, it’s easy to abandon our commitments, but this is a sure-fire way to kill the trust that you’ve worked long to win, so, you’d be prudent to hold your word.

9. Believe

So many people just believe in what they can see, feel, reach, and fail to see past what is preferred before them. On the other side, optimistic people have learned to believe in what they cannot see. They believe in beauty, or goodness, or grace, or peace, or change of the world, and they fight for it with everything they have because they know it is possible, even if all the physical evidence (and a thousand naysayers) before them tells them they are wrong.

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10. Love

This used to be a term and expression reserved for the intimate arena-confined to particular circumstances in which people express interest in their family, marriages, acquaintances, and others they care about. But, luckily, people engage more in love, and love spreads. We’re seeing a new focus on leading the business world with love, and building compassionate care cultures. I conclude that every sort of powerful practices that inspires me the most motivating actions of human beings — being present and embracing of another, loving profoundly, realizing that we are not different from others, and communicating of kindness and non-judgment in the heart for those you are with.

Conclusion:

Has anyone ever motivated you to make a significant change in your life that would make you healthier, happier, or more fulfilled? If so, you understand the difference which a positive inspiration can make in the life of a person. Inspiration is high but it’s not fast.