Jaclyn Beckerman Coaching

Well, almost 3 actually.

Spending time with my niece Audrey always fills my heart with love and joy. She is a brilliant, vivacious little girl who floods you with love every time you see her.

We went to her indoor open play group on Saturday and it was so much fun watching her run around trying anything and everything. She was most enamored with the trampoline which she’d been relentlessly trying to learn to bounce to her butt and straight back up to her feet.  She was so close but couldn’t get her feet underneath her fast enough.  After numerous attempts (this not being her first day trying to learn this) I asked her if she wanted help.  She said yes so helped her by holding her hands up while she jumped.  After successfully doing it this way a handful of times I let her get back to spontaneous play.  When she came back to the trampoline a little later she was able to repeatedly do it all by herself!

It’s just amazing watching children play and explore.  They have such a curiosity and sense of wonder about life.  Even if they do the same routine and a regular basis, they always approach that thing as if it’s just as new and exciting as the first time they discovered it.  Always looking to keep learning and growing and expanding their capabilities.

I realize there are many areas where I do not do that.  Once I’ve been doing something for awhile I tend to get bored of it and disenchanted by the process.  Often I end up walking away from that thing on to new and more exciting prospects.  I want everything to be fun and joyful and exciting all the time yet I don’t choose to see or experience it that way.  Instead I often choose boredom or frustration or resignation.  It seems like making that choice should be so obvious and simple yet if I’m going on auto-pilot with something I’ve done for awhile, joy and fun are not likely to be the automatic thing to pop up.

I need to start looking at the same old thing, the same task or event or project or even person with new eyes every time I engage with it.  To experience it with all the curiosity and wonder that, for me, naturally exists in anything new.  I have a feeling that that will be the access to joy fun and inspiration.

It really is incredible the immensity of knowledge we can gain from children if we allow them to teach us.