Supportive People Change the Game, Boost Performance
Supportive people in my life are worth more than gold. They literally change the game.
Writing a daily blog is not necessarily difficult. Launching a new business isn’t back breaking work either. However, both of these activities are mentally taxing. The daily grind of creating something from nothing leaves your brain exhausted.
Correspondingly, I’m faced with doubts, fear, and urges to quit on any given day. This is why supportive people are so important. It seems that in the moments when I doubt myself the most, the supportive people in my life show up to:
- Encourage me with positive feedback
- Push me to keep going when I want to quit
Fact: Encouragement from Supportive People Boost Performance
Surprisingly, I also found research that proves this. It’s a fact that supportive people in your life will boost your performance.
- A study done at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania proved that verbal encouragement has profound effects on improving performance.
- Research with the Alabama State Department of Education shows positive reinforcement is paramount. Teachers who use positive reinforcement increase student attendance and learning gains and decrease discipline infractions.
- Stanford University professor Albert Bandura has substantial research on self-efficacy that shows positive communication from trusted sources motivates people to work at a task harder and longer.
In short, without supportive people it’s extremely hard to reach peak performance. Furthermore, it’s even harder to grind it out when things are going from bad to worse.
So to anyone who has pushed me, encouraged me, or given unsolicited positive feedback, thank you. You’re an unsung hero in my life.
To show my thanks, each day I will do the same for someone else. In fact, I’m going to make this part of my daily routine. My goal now is to do one or more of the following daily:
- Like, share or write an uplifting comment on a post of someone sharing their health, artistic, business, or educational products/progress
- Send an encouraging message to a friend, family member, or professional contact
- Make a purchase from a friend’s business even if I don’t really need it, just to give them a boost
I know I need supportive people like this in my life. I also know just as well the people in my network need them too.