{"id":364,"date":"2008-01-25T17:14:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T22:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theholtsite.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/25\/words-of-affirmation-2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T17:16:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T22:16:44","slug":"words-of-affirmation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/364\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Affirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently reread the book “The Five Love Languages” <\/a> and was reminded why I enjoyed it so much the first time. It was really helpful to take another look at the way I communicate and receive love. If you’re unfamiliar with the love languages, the author Gary Chapman puts them into 5 categories <\/p>\n

Acts of Service
\nPhysical Touch
\nGift Giving
\nWords of Affirmation
\nQuality Time<\/p>\n

I’ve always been able to identify my top ones (acts of service & words of affirmation), but have never really identify and outstanding winner. <\/p>\n

Today, I had my meeting with the Executive Director at work. I wanted to talk library with him and discuss ideas I have had for making our Library a better one. It went pretty much as I expected it to. We spent some time just catching up and discussing my division at work. Then I had the floor to share my professional goals and talk about the school library. Friends and co-workers who met with him before had said that he’ll “say such good things about you that you want to cry”. Well…. \ud83d\ude42 Those who are closest to me know that I’m an easy crier. Looking back, I guess it was just nice to hear those things and be affirmed. I can think one thing, but hearing feedback from others really makes a difference. I have had this experience with others from work and supervisors who have given me encouraging words about the work I do, and it really means a lot to me. On the occasion when my mom, husband, sister, friend has written me an affirming note… it’s the best thing!<\/p>\n

So, there it is, I think words of affirmation might just be my primary love language. But you can still give me gifts if you want to \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

What’s your love language? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently reread the book “The Five Love Languages” and was reminded why I enjoyed it so much the first time. It was really helpful to take another look at the way I communicate and receive love. If you’re unfamiliar with the love languages, the author Gary Chapman puts them into 5 categories Acts of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}