Extra batteries
How can it possibly be true that I am in a good mood right now? It's 8:47, and all the kiddos are finally in bed. For the record, that's about 1 hour and 17 minutes later than I would tend to consider appropriate.
One reason is that I had a little breakthrough with Benjamin this evening: I helped him see that I "get batteries" when people listen to me and say nice things, and I "lose batteries" when people don't listen me, and they say mean things to me.
It's an obvious concept. We've explored it before. But tonight, for some reason, Ben really connected with it. And he made it his mission to be a good listener and say nice things tonight. What an extraordinary difference it makes to have people create kindness intentionally.
Extra batteries were necessary, needed and valuable today, because today made no sense.
My workday today consisted of co-facilitating a room of 6 clients from a video conference in my home office, and then connecting live every 30 minutes to a video call with differe…
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