Lessons on Balance From an Overtired Child
June 30, 2011
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He is six years old and proudly tells you so. As with all children, I learn so much about life and about myself from him. This time a couple of lessons came from watching him play a game of balance. A Wii game for him, a metaphor for me. It happened a couple of weeks ago, but two lessons from the incident linger. The first came about by watching him face personal failure. Watching an overtired child cave under the self imposed pressure of success was like looking into an invisible mirror. To make matters worse, he had declared loudly