Monday Motivational Minute: I Believe That Children Are The Future

It's my favorite day of the week! Just kidding. Actually, Thursday is my favorite day of the week. I'm not sure why, but I have always been a fan of Thursdays. Go figure. Anyway...on to the motivation. LOL

"I Believe That Children Are The Future"

Today I attended my son's kindergarten graduation and while it was full of your normal elementary school follies like funny songs, group poems and kids reading like robots, the one thing that made it so special was that my son was the only 5 year old in the group of 6 year old classmates.

My son is pretty brilliant (definitely gets that from my side of the family. lol) so we started his schooling a year early and got him accepted into the kidergarten at 4 instead of waiting another year for him to turn five. Although he was the youngest kid in the class, he excelled beyond most of the older kids and has been reading at a first grade level all year.

Surely tooting my son's horn is not going to motivate you this Monday but perhaps this lesson will. What if my wife and I would have accepted the school system's limitations and low expectations put on 4 year old that says they are not ready for kindergarten and aren't smart enough to count to 100? If we accepted that, then my son would have never been given the chance to excel the way he has and would actually be losing ground instead of gaining it.

What limitations have you accepted in your life simply because someone told you that you weren't ready? Is it really necessary to have 5-7 years experience to be effective in your dream job or did you just acept that as truth?

What if Bill Gates accepted the thought that he had to have a college degree to be successful?

What if Oprah Winfrey accepted the thought that no one would want to watch, let alone listen to, a fat ugly black woman on TV?

What if Barack Obama accepted the thought that America is not ready for a black president?

Everything we need to be successful is already in us. Sometimes, just like my son, we just need to be pushed and believe that we are good enough and smart enough to compete with everyone else. As a child, we are only born with two fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. So where did all the rest of this junk we're afraid of come from? Probably from other people.

Well I want to challenge you this Monday to take that fear and "Return to Sender." Push yourself to achieve more than you're "supposed" to and get the success that belongs to you.

Be Blessed,

Ryan
www.ryancgreene.com