Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Are you an encourager? Do you encourage other people? Oh my, the world needs more encourages.

I had a thought the other day. I thought, does the word

encourage and the word courage? Like, there has to be an alignment here. I mean, the word

courage is in encourage. And I did a little bit of research. And yes, they do share the same

root word core, C-O-R, meaning heart. Isn't that beautiful? To have courage means

you use your heart. To encourage others means you share your heart and maybe even remind

others of the heart that they have within them. Whenever I think about what encouragement means, to me it's not praise.

It's not kind of cheap, happy.

You're the best.

You're amazing.

And look, we see this a lot and look, wonderful.

Anything, any love you put into the world, it's always going to be.

I mean, it's always a plus, right?

More love in the world is always a plus. But for me, encouragement is a little bit different. And this is inspired by

Adlerian psychology. Alfred Adler, the late psychologist, he spoke about encouragement

specifically as a helpful tool for children and for adults. So let me give you an example here.

Instead of giving a judgment like, you're so hot, you're so cute, you're so smart, we want to tell

people the impact that they've had on us. And this is an example I actually wrote about

in the book,

Let It Be Easy. Imagine somebody comes to your house and she's an amazing organizer. There's a friend

that you have and she's just naturally really good at putting things in a way that it just looks

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