Name________________________________________________________Date _______________

What can you remember people saying to you when you were very young that made you feel like you were loveable and capable?  (Fred was raised by his grandparents and remembers his grandma saying, “Those little hands can do anything.”  Imagine how empowering that was for him.
” To this day he accepts any challenge as an opportunity!!)

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1.  What was said to you?:______________________________________________________________

Who said it? __________________________________________________________________________

2.  Can you remember being yelled at for doing something wrong?

What was said: _______________________________________________________________________

Who said it? _________________________________________________________________________

3.  Can you remember the last time you said something to someone that was designed to help them feel good about themselves?  (Might this have made a memory for them?)

What did you say? ___________________________________________________________________

To whom: ___________________________________________________________________________

4.  How would your family, circle of friends, and your school/place of work be different if everyone concentrated on saying the kinds of things you said in number 3 above?

a)  Family

b)  Friends

c)  School/Work

Note:  We have the ability and responsibility to work toward creating the kind of family, school, community, state, country and world in which we want to live.  What have you done to work on that lately?   If you’ve done nothing, expect nothing in return!