Networking like a 5 year old
Yesterday, I was riding the train at our fantastic Greenfield Village and in front me was the most adorable five year old boy.
As we were waiting for the train to load, this little boy was observing the world around him. He was curious about the farmer working with two horses to plow the field and quickly turned to me and asked - what are they doing? Without a thought - he was able to strike up a conversation about the situation we were in and what was going on around us.
He then proceeded to ask me my name and told me his.
He gave me advice on what to do while I was at the village like ride the carousel and to get ice cream before we left. (Both fantastic pieces of advice by the way!)
What I most enjoyed was his sense of wonder and true curiosity about me and the ride we were taking.
What I learned - be authentic and look at the world like a five year old learning and you can't go wrong!
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What a beautiful reminder to live in the moment. Life is so much better when I do. Beverly, your post also reminds me of a book by Robert Fulghum called: All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten.
Here are the pointers from the book. A simple yet powerful message. Enjoy!
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 and 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.
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I believe the quote is..
"Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching"
I think it's an "Aurora Greenway" quote from the movie Terms of Endearment.
Careful about those sandbox meetings, Carol. I met David Biskner that way when we were kids, probably 4 and 5 years old. Walk out my back door, and this kid I'd never seen before was there playing in my sandbox! I was steamed! Took me years to get over it. In fact, I still...
So go ahead and have your sandbox meeting, but I won't be hosting. And be careful about that David Biskner -- he just might crash your meeting.
Hi Jeff,
I will be sure to keep my eye out for David Biskner. I do have a meeting for tomorrow, but think I'll skip the sandbox as it is getting pretty cold out there right now.
Thanks for the story.