Confidence & Courage Tips…
To Help You Realize Your Dreams
Brought to you by: Gabriel Daniels
Copyright 2005 Gabriel Daniels
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Confidence & Courage Tips…To Help You Realize Your Dreams 2
Run Freely
(A Lesson About Courage)
By Gabriel Daniels
One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from
work. I got there a little early so I parked the car by the curb, across
the street from where she worked, and waited for her.
As I looked outside the car window to my right, there was a small park
where I saw a little boy, around one and a half to two years old,
running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short
distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been set
free from some sort of prison. The boy would then fall to the grass, get
up, and without hesitation or without looking back at his mother, run
as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing
had happened.
At that moment, I thought to myself, “Why aren't most adults this
way?” Most adults, when they fall down (figuratively speaking), make
a big deal out of it and don't even make a second attempt. They would
be so embarrassed that someone saw them fall that they would not try
again. Or, because they fell, they would justify to themselves that
they're just not cut out for it. They would end up too afraid to attempt
again for fear of failure.
However, with kids (especially at an earl