February 20, 2007

Live Like A Kid Again

Remember how you were so excited to wake up and start your morning? You couldn’t wait to go to the playground. You loved to play outside whether it was rain, sleet, hail, or snow. Or how about those times when you were inside the house and you made the best of your situation by using your imagination to pretend like you were really somewhere else? It seems like living as a kid is the best life to live. Think about it. You get free stuff, you almost always get your way, and you make sure that you at least have some type of fun wherever you are. I haven’t even began to cover the many things kids do that make them the most important people on earth. Kids are the most important people on earth simply because they are humble, happy, faithful, and alive. Children are more enthusiastic towards everything about life, literally. If you ask an adult to drive across town to pick up something, chances are they probably wouldn’t be too excited to do it. Now if you ask a child to drive across town, (who cares if they don’t have a license, just imagine it, that the point remember?) no kid on the face of the planet would dare even turn that favor (or opportunity, from a child’s point of view) down.

When was the last time someone told you what to do, and you did it with no questions asked? If you can remember that, can you also remember how you couldn’t wait for that person to see how well of a job you did? I’m pretty sure that if you can remember a specific time that happened to you, and you responded in a humble way, I can almost guarantee you that you were a kid. Most adults are not that humble, at all. It seems as if as soon as we get older we adopt the poor old adult like attitude and mindset which causes us to lose our humility. Everyone now days wants to be the boss, and it seems like the older they get the more grumpier and bossier they get. What we need to do first is go back into time when we were living our lives as kids. Feel that feeling of being a kid, and then apply it to your life now. Heard of the saying “you are as young as you feel?” It is very true, no matter what age you are you can feel as young as you want to be (if you feel like it ;) ). However the only way to get there is by being humble, stop trying to be so adult like and step up to the plate and be serious (or maybe not). Besides, its boring anyways, wheres the fun?

The fun is found in the mind which is what creates that happiness. I remember clearly all of the times when I was playing some type of super hero, and I was always extremely enthusiastic about it. I may have not seen anything in the material world, but inside my mind I was in a whole other world, which was were all of my attention was. Even if I wasn’t running around aimlessly in the house or the yard, I was at least daydreaming about myself having fun being whatever I imagined. The best part about it, was there was no limits. If only everyone could still live this way we could get much more done, and much faster. If I would just simply apply what I just said to a goal that I have or if I desire to be something, then it would surely manifest in less time. The reason it takes longer is because we are doing the exact opposite. The three simple steps to manifesting whatever you want in your life is Thinking, Feeling, and Acting. As I was a kid, thinking, was my daydreaming about who I wanted to be, all of the time. However the important part was that I wasn’t just thinking about what I wanted to become, I was thinking I am that something that I decided to be (believe you have what you ask for). The feeling part was my enthusiasm with everything I did, as I truly believed deep down in my heart that I was that which I said I was, and that feeling was very strong. My actions, well I was only a kid, so my actions were using what I had to help me as I pretended to be what I wanted to be. If we could take the action just as a child would we could get our goals accomplished 10 times better and faster than we normally would.

Children have such great faith, I believe. The reason, you could tell a child anything, and they will believe you. Remember they are in a humble mindset so they respect and honor whatever you tell them. Santa Clause, and the Easter Bunny are great examples (not to say they don’t exist ;) ). It’s not just that they don’t know any better, they believe because they haven’t adopted any adult like limitations in their minds. Children are becoming something new and living their dreams every single day. So what is stopping us adults? I think that we have lost too much of our childlike features, that we have become limited in our minds by adopting “other” peoples ways. These “other” ways is the problem that keeps us “in the box”.

Another thing I hear is “oh your young so you can do that, I can’t”, or “I can’t eat that, but your young so you can have all you want”. Who is feeding our minds with this information that we can’t eat what we want because we’ll become sick or unhealthy? Now if people have a belief that certain foods will make them sick or unhealthy in any way, then for those people it will be just as they believed it will. Although, it doesn’t have to be, it truthfully all just depends on what you believe is good for you and what is not. “You life is determined by you, not someone else’s opinion or experience” - Walt. So with that in mind, you can be healthy if you feel like it. When I say feel like it, I mean if your thoughts and your feelings are in right alignment with what you truly desire.

Everybody has a goal, dream, and desire to do, have, or be something. We can all achieve everything that we want, and we can do that best by thinking and providing that enthusiastic feeling as if we were kids. Action of course is definitely required to accomplish the task as well. The most important thing is to make sure that we are doing what we want to be doing, and also that we are having extreme fun doing it with enthusiasm.


Someone told me a joke - “Why do adults always ask children what they want to be when they grow up? Answer - So they could get ideas”. That joke whoever made it up definitely understands the way we are meant to live, and it’s not old (mindset not age).

“Doing a job well will only get you by, but doing a job because it’s fun and doing it with enthusiasm returns outstanding results!” - Walt

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