Shoot For the Moon: Harnessing a Child’s Enthusiasm to Achieve Your Goals
Sue Dickinson, www.UnlimitedMom.com
When my husband and I first recognized my son’s passion for basketball, we did everything we could to help nurture his interest into the talent he so desperately wanted.□ I found a basketball camp in the area that would teach him the proper way to shoot and handle the basketball.□ My husband spent night after night watching basketball games with him (what a sacrifice…), explaining the rules and pointing out the techniques of the game.
It’s easy to recognize our children’s gifts and get excited and involved in developing them.□Since it is so much fun to see the progress our kids can make, isn’t it strange that the same optimism about developing a new skill or finding a gift doesn’t always spill over to us?
What happens to our dreams?
Maybe one reason is that when we look at a child, we see nothing but a blank slate, ready to be filled with whatever outrageous and exaggerated dreams they can think up.□ Anything is possible!□ As we get older, though, our slate is no longer clean □ we have “responsibilities” and “obligations” that leave no room for larger-than-life dreams.□ We foster the belief that if we can’t have it all, it’s not worth trying.
There is still time left to dream
What a shame and a waste!□ If we were limited to the gifts and talents we develop as a child, many of us would never discover the wonderful things in store for us.□ Anna Mary Robertson (also known as Grandma Moses) never even picked up a paintbrush until she was in her mid seventies.□ The year before she died, at 101 years old, she painted 25 pictures.□ What a loss it would have been if she had decided she had too many things preventing her from fulfilling her dream!□Sadly, that’s what many people much younger than Grandma Moses believe… when in reality, the possibilities for them are limited only by their own self-made barriers.
During the next few weeks I challenge you break that pattern of self-destruction. You have built-in role models in your kids to observe and emulate □ really watch how their excitement and zest for life and their built in desire to excel propels them to unlimited possibilities.□□ Then, try to harness even a little of that enthusiasm into your own quest to achieve your goals and dreams.□ True, with your busy life you may not attain everything you desire immediately.□ But the results are bound to be better than the status quo!□ After all, as Les Brown reminds us, it’s always better to “Shoot for the moon.□ Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars!”
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