motivation
Why Do We Destroy Kids’ Dreams?
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | motivation | 2 Comments
When I was a kid I wanted to be various things when I grew up: astronaut, mailman, dinosaur rancher, President of the USA. My friends typically had the same ambitions and our parents usually responded by telling us that we could be anything if we just set our minds to it. However, somewhere along the way we all encountered some snarky pessimist who shot our dreams down by telling us “Hey stupid kid, you’ll never be president! There’s millions of people who want that job!”. Poof! Our dreams are popped. Is this really what we should be telling our kids?
Failure Isn’t Permanent
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | motivation | 2 Comments
I’m trying to help a co-worker find a date. She had the wonderful idea of joining Match.com but got cold feet and chickened out before joining. I’ve been trying to motivate her for the past week to just take the plunge and join but she’s been putting up a lot of lame excuses. Her worst excuse is “what if I go on a date with somebody bad?”. It’s this kind of thinking that makes me want to hit her with a stick. You don’t stop because of one bad date - failure isn’t permanent.