Dr. Meadors’ teaching on Clifton and Rath’s #1 New York Times and #1 Business Week best seller, “How Full is Your Bucket?”  Each of us has an invisible bucket.  It is constantly emptied or filled, depending on what others say or do to us.  When our bucket is full, we feel great.  When it is empty, we feel awful.  Each of us also has an invisible dipper.  When the dipper is used to fill other people’s buckets—by saying or doing things to increase their positive emotions, we also fill our own bucket.  But when we use the dipper to dip from other people’s buckets—by saying or doing things that decrease their positive emotions, we diminish ourselves.  Like the “cup that runneth over,” a full bucket gives us a positive outlook and renewed energy.  Every drop in the bucket makes us stronger and more optimistic.