Appreciate to encourage!

Encouragement is one word which is full in itself. It can come in many forms like clapping, appreciating, acknowledging, rewarding, praising and so on. When you praise someone for their good performance, they feel good and want to maintain that standard in future. This is one strong means of encouragement. But stronger one is when you may not deserve the appreciation and still they do. They do it knowingly or unknowingly, but it has a deep impact in the recipient. Your heart knows whether you deserve the praise or not. If you deserve you will be happy and continue the good work. But when you are convinced within yourself that was an undue appreciation, you tend to work towards the praise-worthy standards immediately. This I have seen it with me. There is my music teacher aunty who comes home to teach me vocal music so passionately. She casually makes this statement everyday that I keep home well. Ho..! Isn't that a bit too  much for me? I feel from within and this sends me to quick action.
I know I need to keep home well. I do some but I am not perfect, I never live up to my husband's expectations, nor I feel satisfied myself. Nothing has ever made me put house keeping my priority though my home is not one of messy type. But of this, what I observed is that, the motivation behind a work is very very important. I clean my home under various conditions, like when I have guest, or when I am myself bored of the untidy arrangement, or I want to make my husband's homecoming (from office) peaceful. Nothing was so pleasing as working under this motivation as to live up to a little bit overdue appreciation. It was the best pat on the back.
Makes me think, why not inculcate this mood in us when we have to encourage somebody?