My judo instructor is awesome at teaching us how to grapple, but she's also very supportive in other areas of our lives. She's understanding and can almost always magically sense when something is wrong or bothering one of us. Whenever she senses that one of us is having an issue in another part of our life, she lets us take longer breaks and offers to talk if we need someone to listen. Once when I was going through a rough time, she encouraged me to just hang in there and survive, and I'm so thankful for that because the support I got from others at the time was one of the only reasons I could look forward to the next day. She motivates us to do our best not just in judo, but outside of martial arts as well, and she encourages many of us to go out there, branch out, and explore what we want to do in life. I know many others in my judo class who decided to enter a film competition or try a new painting style or even travel to a place they've never been before because of her encouraging words. So yea, that's her, helping us with judo and life in general.
if i would say that a person had changed my life is my Math Teacher. he is a wonderful person, who just doesn't teach math, but help us with personal problems. he is a person who is more of a friend then a teacher. one time he took classes on religious, how we should live, how to use technology. he changed my view on many things and made me think about other things and care about them. he taught me to treat others in a nice way and we should not talk anything wrong about them, about their religious, and many more.
Stephen Covey (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) uses the metaphor of Emotional Bank Account to describe “the amount of trust that's been built up in a relationship”. This is one of the most powerful and graphic concepts to date on building relationships based on trust.
