top of page
Search

Keep Being Awesome

There are 3 Ruff girls living in Santa Monica these days. My older daughter who graduated from college last year and my 15 year old daughter who is in high school, along with myself. We are in our groove and in our own ways we are each on a journey to reach our big goals. In an effort for us all to stay focused I decided to post the following quote on my fridge (by the way - I am the self-affirmed Queen of Qoutes...just ask my co-workers):


"You can't do it all today, but you can do it. Big goals can only be reached with patience, persistence, and actions in their direction a little more every single day." -Doe Zantamata

Beneath this image with the quote I typed our three goals. I printed it off on nice paper and posted it there for us to look at as a daily reminder of the direction we are headed.

So why is this interesting? Enter child #3, my son Justus the up and coming college junior. He is now living here with us while he works at his summer internship. I come home from work one day to see scribbled beneath our three goals, his goal: 'Justus is going to keep being awesome.' My first reaction was to be annoyed with him for ruining my nice clean paper. Within seconds though, I found myself grinning. I know he was trying to be funny but I also was proud of what he wrote. You see to me, one of the triumphs of parenthood is helping our kids see their awesomeness. Now, I am not talking about arrogance or conceit - my 4 kids are not either of those. I am talking about being happy, confidant and accepting of their strengths and limitations. They were never raised to think they were better than anyone else, but they were certainly raised to feel awesome about themselves.


How did they get to this point? Well for one thing my husband and I always told them they were awesome. God doesn't make mistakes and all things created by God are awesome, so we told them that - over and over. But we also guided them on setting high expectations for themselves. We never allowed them to take the easy path when we knew they were capable of more. We supported them when they were successful and we allowed them to fail when necessary. It is not easy to watch one of your kids screw up, but if you don't allow them to learn that failure is simply just a step up and not the end, then they will always struggle to navigate the failures that you are unable to protect them from. And we all know, that is going to happen. If they come to believe that they will always land on their feet and have your support, then they will also come to believe that they are awesome.


So I am going to let my son make it his goal to keep being awesome and hope that he in turn will make others feel the same way!


Lesson learned: Keep being awesome.


Be Great!

LeeAnne

تعليقات


bottom of page