With a deeper understanding of encouragement, this book can be a resource to develop encouragement strategies and techniques for everyday life. Each reader can determine how this new information about encouragement will influence his or her leadership style and personal relationships. Readers will also be urged to take a close look at the people in their network of encouragers and to find ways for self-encouragement. When someone is overwhelmed and standing on the ledge to the pits of despair, effective encouragement can not only move them off that ledge but can perhaps keep him or her from going there in the first place. The goal of encouragement is to instill the courage to reduce fear, perseverance to combat the urge to give up, confidence to heighten low self-efficacy, inspiration to resolve a lack of motivation, and finally, the hope to diminish pessimism for the future.