Take relationships to a deeper level
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father came home from work and his fiveyear- old son met him in the driveway. “Daddy, welcome home, Daddy. Will you play baseball with me?” His father flippantly responded, “I have too much work to do. I don’t have time. But I want you to know that I love you.” His little boy replied, “Dad, I don’t want you to love me, I want you to play ball with me!”
Take competition to its highest fulfilment
A young girl with a serious mental handicap ran in the 50-yard dash competition of the national Special Olympics track-and-field meet. When she lost the race, she turned to all the timers, track personnel, meet officials and fellow athletes, and taught them all one of the greatest, most profound lessons of competition. With an IQ of 42, she said, “I finished at my best, and you have to give it your all and finish best before you can ever finish first!”
Take mistakes to their sweetest solutions
A little boy spilled cranberry juice on the new carpet in his living room. Shaking with fear and sobbing giant tears of pain, he humbly walked into the kitchen to confess. “Mom, I am so sorry. I just spilled my big glass of juice on your new carpet. I feel very, very bad.” His mother hugged him and said, “It’s okay. Don’t be sad. I can get you another glass of cranberry juice.”