"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world would be a better place -a much better place- if we spent even half as much time building up each other as we do tearing each other down.

It seems to be almost predictable- in times of stress like we're going through now, people get into a blame game. Each complains about the other people... Somebody decides that someone else isn't pulling his/her own weight... often that blame doesn't belong where we try to assign it.

It can be an important exercise to assess where we have gone wrong, and right, because most of the time name calling and rumor mongering hurts ourselves much more than it hurts to target of our frustration.

We'd be much better off if we were to give each other the benefit of the doubt, and try to understand each other.

Every Wednesday I have staff meeting and at the end we have our "weekly wisdom" where someone goes over a motivational thought or idea with everyone. The above was brought up this morning and it really hit home for me so I thought I'd share this thought of respecting others with all of you.