Me? A Cheerleader?

Well, one way that I’ve discovered that makes things easier, when they seem hard, is to have a cheerleader. When I was a teenager I wanted to be a cheerleader. Probably like pretty much every other girl around, I thought it would be the funnest thing ever. But, you know, things didn’t line up for me. I was homeschooled, for one, so, no one to cheer for. No football team or anything, so that didn’t work out. 

Do you know why they have cheerleaders at football games? Football is a really hard activity, and the team really feeds off the energy of the crowd. The cheerleaders pump up their energy and they cheer for the team and they boost everybody up in the crowd. Then everybody gets excited and motivated and they have more energy. Pretty soon the football players are running faster and catching better, because they have cheerleaders cheering them on.

Write Yourself a Letter

Well, why can’t we take that idea from high school and carry it on through our lives? We do hard things all the time and we know that having someone cheer for us, having someone in our corner, is going to help. So, one way that I’ve used this idea is by being my own cheerleader. I will write a letter to myself saying “Yay! You got this! You can do it! You’re awesome!” I just write a letter of encouragement to myself and then when I’m going through something hard, I can read it. I put it up in my bathroom on the wall and I read it frequently. It gives me a boost. It gives me the encouragement that I need to get done what needs to get done–these hard things that come up in our lives. 

So, consider being your own cheerleader. Think about writing yourself a letter of encouragement to help you get through whatever hard thing that you’re either doing or want to do.