Sunday, June 15, 2008

Sammy is a Genius

I was introduced to Sammy on the weekend and he reinforced to me how to get a positive reaction from a perceived negative situation. See Sammy isn't human, he has only one leg and can't float. I was introduced to him by my son Tyrone who met Sammy at his swimming lesson on Saturday. For the record Tyrone is 3 years old.

Sammy's was introduced to Tyrone to encourage him to put his head under water. This is very frightening for Tyrone as it is for all of the other boys in his group. But Sammy was funny and captured the attention of the kids big time. Although the thought of dipping his head under the water wasn't any more inviting than before Sammy arrived; getting Sammy off the bottom of the pool was number one priority now. The priority had shifted from worrying about putting his head under water to getting Sammy off the bottom of the pool.

My point is some things don't seem very inviting. Such as eating fruit and vegetables over cakes or deep fried fast foods. Getting up in the morning to participate in exercise sometimes isn't as attractive as staying in bed for an extra half an hour. To get you to move forward and participate in the perceived not so attractive options you need to find a motivating factor that juices you to do anything needed to get it. I can't tell you what your end result should be, but if you look deep within it is inside and it will motivate you to greater heights.

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