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I would like to begin this blog post with an apology for not having uploaded it earlier I hope that you will still accept it if not I suppose it can be counted as blog post number four unless you would prefer that I do a different reading for blog post number four and skip the reading I did for blog post number three…

The chapter I have read about has mostly to do with complementing other people and affirming their desire for recognition and attention. The author claims the people mostly bought approval this is the opposite of the first chapter which talked a lot about not wanting criticism they go hand-in-hand. As I have continued to work on my project at the MIRA coalition, i've had an amazing experience. I have been able to be in contact with high-profile people in the media and the Guatemalan consulate and several churches across the state in order to promote the citizenship clinic. We have businesses cosponsoring the event, and we will do the door-to-door out reach and canvassing on Monday! I'm really excited for how things have been going, and I am thrilled for the event. One major challenge we've had has been balancing near is very practical and secular way of running clinics that have been a high model of success compared to the way that the Evangelical churches want to do things in a more conservative or fundamental way. Balancing these two parts of our network has been a bit of a challenge at times. Even so, maintaining a very nonjudgmental and complementary state of mine has really helped me to move the project forward with minimal interruptions or setbacks. Both my amazing supervisor and he and I have done our best not to criticize the ways of the church but simply to let them watch over us off for a few compliments use some parts of the suggestions and then go back to the office and do the clinics that we and Mira has been doing for years successfully. This has really helped us in other ways as well because we have gotten members of the church who own businesses to cosponsor, gotten donations from church members, and been very widely accepted by the church community. 

This outreach has been seemingly successful, and I think that that is partly because our cause is good and just, but also because we have done our best to treat others really well in the process. We are working hard to make people feel appreciated and show that we are very grateful for their assistance and explain to them all the ways, small and large, that they are helping the cause. I certainly believe that making others feel appreciated and valued in a project makes them want to continue with you. I myself have left, or disliked, classes or jobs where I felt unappreciated and not valued, and I have thrived more so at the places where I feel valuable and appreciated. In our work with volunteers and co-sposors, thank you notes, beginning calls sharing how excited we are to have their presence, and listening in a way that makes them feel valued, are all important parts of my job that (for me) confirm the positivity of complementing offers on a business project.