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%LACK ADMIRATION PRAISE APPRECIATION HONOR POSITIVE+951203
     %LEADER COMMUNITY RECOGNIZE NAME DESCRIBE TALK+951203
 %DISINTEGRATE CONSEQUENCE SCANDAL CRUCIFY ASSASSIN+951203
     %SCARCE SUPPLY HOARD NEGATIVE POSITIVE CYNICAL 951203

When,   in  a community,  few  people  are  admired,
praised, appreciated,  honored, etc.---it is important for
the leaders of such a community to:

     1.  Recognize, name, describe and talk about the lack
of admiration, praise, appreciation and honor within their
community.

     2.  Recognize,   name,   describe and talk about  the
variety of reasons for there being the lack of admiration,
praise, appreciation and honor within their community.

     3.  Recognize,   name,   describe and talk about  the
disintegrative  consequences  of there being the  lack  of
admiration,   praise,  appreciation and honor within their
community.

     4.  Recognize,   name,   describe and talk about  the
variety  of ways in which they can work together to remedy
the  lack of admiration,  praise,  appreciation and  honor
within their community.

                  ALSO:

     1.  If any one of the above steps is not taken it  is
very unlikely that the steps following it will be taken.

     2.  Each community will most likely be different from
each other community.   There can be no universal cure for
the difficulties of all different communities.  Thus, each
community    must  take  the  above step  two  in  a   way
appropriate to itself.   Even so,  it will be helpful  for
communities to be aware of the reasons recognized in other
communities.

     The reasons  for there being  the lack of admiration,
praise,  appreciation  and  honor  within a community will
probably include some of the following:

     People  who have been admired,  praised,  appreciated
and honored have turned out to be  unworthy of admiration,
praise, appreciation and honor---and people who don't want
to repeat making that kind of  mistake have become  overly
skeptical.    Consider all the scandals related to "great"
religious, political, business and professional leaders.

     People who have been admired,  praised,   appreciated
and  honored have been destroyed by disintegrative people;
and so people hide  what is worthy of admiration,  praise,
appreciation  and  honor  ---   so as not to come  to  the
attention  of  disintegrative people.   Consider  all  the
great leaders who have been crucified and assassinated  by
disintegrative people.

     People may feel that there is some inherent  scarcity
in supply  of admiration, praise,  appreciation and honor;
and are inclined to hoard it.

     3.  Communities in  which  there  is  a  scarcity  of
admiration, praise, appreciation and honor:

     Tend towards  negativity  and destructive patterns of
behavior;  e.g., towards cynicism,  skepticism,  criticism
and paranoia.

     Tend  to become unbalanced and unstable and therefore
prone  to destructive revolutions when people week to turn
things around to regain balance and stability.

     Tend  to  lose clear visions of how to  make  prudent
evaluations, judgements and affirmations.

     Tend to lose  enthusiasm  for working to conceive and
achieve integrative goals.

     4.  In  the  face  of any real  lack  of  admiration,
praise, appreciation and honor --- there are not likely to
be  many people who have the vision to imagine,  envision,
and/or  clearly  see  what they might to  do  improve  the
integrity and health of their community.

     In  even the worst of situations there are  always  a
few   people   around  who  merit   admiration,    praise,
appreciation and  honor.     The starting point  is always
with such people.   Admire them,  praise them,  appreciate
them  and honor them in ways appropriate to them and  your
community.   Focus upon the positive and help it to  grow.
If  you focus upon the negative --- you are likely to help
it grow.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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