Be Kidlike

"Develop a childlike fascination with life and people." - Jim Rohn

 

Remember how simple things seemed to be when we were a kid? Not a care or a worry in the world. We were just happy with life as it was. Doing whatever we pleased, with whatever we had.

 

Things change as we grow older. But how would our lives be different if we just stayed kidlike? In other words, keep it simple. Don't over-complicate things more than they need to be. Don't worry so much about what other people are thinking, saying, or doing. Just be yourself. Know what you want and need, and take immediate action to get it. Dare to dream often and use your imagination. Say what's on your mind. Believe in other people. Have best friends and rely on them to be there for you when you need them. Get excited about the little things. Take time to sing, joke, smile, laugh, and play...daily. All and all, just have fun doing whatever it is you are doing now.

 

Robert Fulghum wrote an excellent guide, titled "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN," which illustrates this point. Read it and think about how things are currently in your life. Think about how different things would be if you took some of this "advice" to heart.

 

"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school."

 

These are the things I learned: 

 

• Share everything. 
• Play fair. 
• Don't hit people. 
• Put things back where you found them. 
• Clean up your own mess. 
• Don't take things that aren't yours.
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. 
• Wash your hands before you eat. 
• Flush. 
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. 
• Live a balanced life - learn some and think some, draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day...some. 
• Take a nap every afternoon. 
• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together. 
• Be aware of wonder. 
• Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down, and the plant goes up, and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. 
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we. 
• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - "LOOK!" 

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. 

 

Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then laid down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and clean up their own mess. And it is still valid, no matter how old you are when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."

 

We can learn a lot from our kids. There is great truth to this if we dare to look beneath the surface! There is still a little kid inside each of us.

 

Make today great!

 

Curtis

 

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age." - Sophia Loren