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Veggie Tales

You gotta take a minute and check this out. I'm surprised he could keep his gum.



Veggie Tales from David Reber on Vimeo.

I Think I Can

Benjamin loves books. He really enjoys having a book read to him at bed time and I love reading to him. It's good father/son time and since his mother can't read, it's up to me.

At the suggestion of Jeffrey Gitomer, I picked up a copy of Watty Piper's The Little Engine that Could. Have you ever read this book? I mean really read it? The book has a whole cast of characters each of which offer a great lesson. Although it is important to have self-confidence, it's also important to have a servant heart.

This morning, Benjamin found his neatly folded stack of clothes for the day, left by his mother, at the foot of his bed and brought them in to the kitchen where I was. I asked if I could help. "Maybe, but I'm going to try it myself," he said. Getting his head through the big whole, getting his socks on where the words end up on the sole of his foot, and zipping and snapping his pants are usually a little bit of a challenge.

I was into my daily reading when I heard the words that gave me the equivalent of a Venti Pikes Place at Starbucks, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can." I looked up and saw that he did, he did! The boy had completely dressed himself.

Now this isn't really a big deal for a child turning four in a month. A little challenge on the socks and pants but not a huge one. The thing is...he was giving himself self-assurance while keeping his goal in mind. Self assurance has to be vocalized and not kept inside. The more he heard himself say the words to more he wanted to do it.

This is a must read. For you. For your child. For your family. For your team. I am going out today to get another copy to keep in my office. I'll be reading this book at my next sales meeting.

The Closer

We don't take our toys to day care. That's the rule. Because...well, I don't have to explain, just because.

After a great morning together, eating scrambled eggs, brushing our teeth, getting dressed and getting our coats on he hit me with it: "Daddy, which car do you think I should take with me today[brief pause as if he were giving me a choice]? The green one or the orange one?"

You see, either one I chose puts him in the power spot.  He's got me, he's given me two great choices. As he maintains eye contact he is confident he has closed the deal. I even considered which hotwheel I would want to take to work.  Which one would look the coolest on my desk, racing around my desktop keyboard.

Being the sales coach that I am, I chose to let him work on his overcoming objections skills by telling him I had to "think about it".

One day I'll teach him how to overcome that one.

Hungry?

"You like to eat crunchy, green poopy."




Where do they come up with this stuff?