The process of employing these ‘legs’ of encouragement is developed in the book in four basic stages – each one building on the previous one. Readers are challenged to evaluate their present perspective on encouragement in light of a new paradigm. First, the new paradigm initiates the new life of encouragement. Second, the encouraging life becomes a lasting one when built on a three-fold foundation. This foundation provides the fertile ground for cultivating an attitude of intentionality which can lead to a continuous practice of real encouragement in each of the readers’ relationships.