Posts Tagged ‘Honour’

This week I celebrated my wife’s birthday along with other members of our family.

It was fun. It was crazy. It was loud and it was joyous. There was plenty of good food, good gifts, good company, and good conversation had by all. It was a day that we could take just a moment to celebrate and honour a magnificent life, to take out time to pause and say ‘thank you’, to say ‘I love you’, and to affirm how much we all appreciated her contribution to our lives for yet another year. Her life has made a significant difference to each of us, and for that we are truly thankful.

The dissertation was represented in words, phone calls, in text messages, in postings on the Internet, in cards, in emails, and in the many hugs and kisses that flowed. This celebration moved to a higher level as a direct result of these words that were expressed.

But let’s not stop at just one day each year to celebrate. With the birth of each new day we need to learn the art of celebration by using words that frame our day in a celebratory manner.

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I attended a business breakfast the other morning. My 20 year old daughter was attending as well. Without warning she was asked to give an impromptu speech. It was amazing how confidently she shared from her heart. And then, to my utmost surprise, she began to honour me, her father, before a group of over 50 adults – for the mentoring that I have provided for her, particularly over the past three years since she has been part of our Web Design Sales Team.

Well, I was done. The tears began to flow. And as I often share – that when my wife and I were married she had a handkerchief, and I used it. It doesn’t take much for my tap, connected to my eyes, to be turned on.

But what blessed me the most was the fact that she chose to honour me.

This is such an incredibly important quality that needs to be demonstrated more and more in our lives to those who mentor, coach or lead us.

It is so easy to take people for granted; especially the one’s who allow their precious time to be spent on you and I.

So my challenge to you today is : honour someone in your life. Do it in a public gathering. Do it in a private email. The way you do it really doesn’t matter. But the fact that you choose to do it, and do it on a regular basis, does.