Encourage

Encourage:

"I Always encourage myself and others to exceed beyond expectation."

This has stuck with me throughout the day today. I work with a little boy with special needs, we do 3 hour table sessions twice a day, working on his own personal goals. Its kinda like home-schooling and is completely designed to challenge him. The serious problem in this case is not to challenge him: but to challenge me!

 This kid is completely amazing. We started off with labels (touch house, wheres the sun, find horse) and now, in just a year, not only can he read words such as verbs, attributes and pronouns, but he knows the definition behind them (what grows on trees? What do you put sand in? What do you do with an apple? Which ones shorter? To name a few) just today he was showing me things i've never taught him at the table before. There is not one thing that i teach him that he doesn't know or learn within a few days. He is non verbal and is working extra hard on his communication, and i honestly believe he will get there. 

He has taught me to never "dumb" anything down for anyone, simply because you think they may not be able to understand. Without pushing his abilities, i would have never known he had all this knowledge bursting inside him. He inspires me to push myself to my limits.

Always encourage yourself whether it's an extra minute on the treadmill or an important exam or work meeting.

 It won't hurt to believe you've passed your goal before its even happened :)