We discussed something very important to me in our group session today. We discussed the necessity for being seen and being heard. I feel that, at the core or maybe right there on the surface, everyone wants to be seen and everyone wants to be heard. Validation is a primal desire. We portray aspects of ourselves all day long, but who really sees what we're showing? And how do we know what someone is really seeing? Sometimes the simplest reasoning is truly the best. Take the opportunity to tell the people with whom we work, the people we're around often more regularly than family, how we perceive them. Tell them the things that make them special, outstanding people to us. It helps. It really does. It helps to know that the things we try so hard to be really are being picked up upon. We *do* make a difference in someone's daily life.
In working with students, how important could an affirmation or a word of appreciation be to them? And truly how easy and simple a task is it just to let someone know he or she matters - is SEEN and HEARD - and that what he or she is doing is appreciated? That's something for which I hope I can become known: to be the guy who always says thanks and affirms others in the work they're doing. It's just easy, and it makes for a happier, more productive team.
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