FIERCELY SUPPORT YOUR FRIENDS.— Megan 🐼 (@bodyposipanda_) April 6, 2018
Make a big deal out of their achievements.
Shout from the rooftops about their art, their book, their creations.
Support their work financially even if they offer it for free.
Help your friends rise as high as they deserve to ✨
Someone posted this on Twitter, and it really drove home a point. When someone becomes passionate about something, the people around them (friends, family) can often forget how difficult it can be to push that something forward without help. When they forget, you can remind them with this
"5 Reasons why you should support your friends."
5. People who have support can often find greater motivation to succeed.
Think about it. How easy is it to believe you can succeed at something? Pretty easy right? Think about that feeling magnified by when you know people are supporting you, knowing that they believe in you? People cheer their favorite teams on their favorite player hoping that their words, their shreks, somehow reach them and help them push through harder. It's why there are cheer leaders whose only purpose is to help rouse the crowd. It's purely psychological, but it works. After all it's easier to reach the top when so many people are pushing you from the bottom.
4. Friends make good sounding boards.
3. It can help produce a far greater result.
As a content creator, it's a known fact that what you produce often improves as your audience grows. When your friends and family are among that audience, you want to impress them and not waste their time. Knowing them, it is often easier to get good feedback. If they are close, they may be brutal, but they will help provide some of the best feedback. That feedback when utilized, goes back into the product to help it improve. Eventually with enough feedback, the outgoing content is sharp and refined.
2. Support reveals a belief in their competency.
Saying you can do something and then actually doing it are two different things. When you support your friends, (their dream, their professional change, etc), you are saying to them: I believe in you. I believe you possess the wisdom and knowledge to meet and ultimately exceed your goals. You are competent enough to complete that transaction. To ones who are creative, that kind of support goes a long way.
1. The greater the support, the greater the reach.
Everyone knows someone who knows someone. This is just my theory, but it's it quite sound. You share at least five things in common with your friends and family, and these could be completely silly things like pieces of bread and Big Bang Theory, but more than likely, your friends and family may share more in common and they have friends that they may also share things in common with, and they have friends who...you see where I am going with this?
Another way of looking at it. Have you ever asked your friend or family for a recommendation for a good place to eat and upon eating at that place, realized it was AMAZING? So much, that you took your date there and they raved about so they told their friends. The word of one person, branched outward reaching the ears of at least five people. The owner of that restaurant now has more business. Think of your friend as the owner of that restaurant.
It can be tough to support your friends, but they who need it, become better for it.
I'm one of those people who is in need of support of some friends but I want to give as well. You can check out my blog Nytmaer's Dreamspace. You can also follow me on @Torgnytmaer on Twitter and if you're into gaming, you can check me out at my Twitch: www.twitch.tv/theoriginalnytmaer.
Stay Awesome!
