For me the answer to the question about girls playing with
princess stuff is a resounding yes! As the father of five year old daughter,
Marisa, I simply cannot keep track of the different princesses she dresses up
as and play with her imaginary friends. I also cannot begin to tell you how
many times I have had to rescue different princesses from all kinds of out of
this world imaginary catastrophic events. My rescue missions are so demanding and
stressful that I was happy that my father visited from Jamaica this summer. Grandpa
McKenzie rescue me from my roles as saviour of princess this or princess that and
in the process he became Marisa’s idol.
To the point of my blog today…..What can we learn from a childlike
approach to development and success? As I read the article I could not help
thinking how as adults we should rekindle some our childlike approaches to development
and success. My friend Marc Samodee told me a story from one of his visits back
to Trinidad. He was about eight years old at the time. He and his brother had
water guns as toys and they were always looking for targets to spray. He
recalled hatching a plan with his brother to spray a hornet nest in what he
called a 1-2 military-styled attack. As we all know spraying a hornet nest with
water is an extremely risky business and you can use your imagination to visualize
the comical results of two young boys’ hasty retreat from a colony of angry wasps.
For Marc and his brother it was risky but they had fun.
Curiosity, creativity and imagination, eagerness to learn
and explore new things are attributes for success in children’s early childhood
development. I have fond memories of the things I did as a child sometimes
oblivious to the lurking danger. Remember we learned more as children when we were
playing and having fun. However, as we get older we sometime lose our curiosity,
creativity and imagination, and forget about how to have fun. As we get old we lose
our appetite for risk and as such our eagerness to learn and explore new
things.
Today I would like to encourage you to rekindle some your
childlike approaches to success. Think of the things you did as a child and the fun
you had learning. Rekindle your curiosity, creativity and imagination from your
childhood. Seek out and learn new things and have fun doing it. Take some risks
and rekindle a childlike approach to success.
Mark McKenzie is a leading Subject Matter Expert in
financial services regulation and supervision as well as a professional
motivational speaker, corporate trainer and youth mentor. He can be contacted by email
mastbmckenzie@gmail.com or by telephone 647-406-4622. Read my blog http://mastbmckenzie.blogspot.ca/ and always
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