Run In A Box

The Allreds are moving!  So I won’t be able to give you your usual weekly post.  Until the dust settles and I can get back to the regular blogging, here’s something to make you smile.

To help others find their “unrepressed self” sometimes you have to go first.

At my son’s birthday party I was cleaning up and decided to run in a box.  I threw a box over my head, thinking the kids would get a kick out of it.  Remembering I had my pocket knife, I cut out a peep hole and started running at the kids.  The picture is what happened next.  Even the horse seemed happy about it!

I’m glad I had a chance to make my kids laugh that day in so many ways.  I know some of their best memories will be of small stuff like this.  But more importantly, I hope this moment along with so many others gives them an example they can follow.  So when they’re grown up and no longer under my care, they’ll remember to be fearless and do the things they love.  But I also know that if I want them to understand this idea and really believe it, I have to show them first.

I firmly believe if you want to influence someone to action the best way to do it is to live it and show them.

Challenge:  Do something in the next few days that helps you rediscover your “unrepressed self.”  Dance in public, sing in front of people, play a sport, play leapfrog in a crosswalk, sing your lungs out while jogging, but whatever you do you have to give it your all.  Because if you do, people will feel it and appreciate it.  People can smell a fake, but authentic passion is amazing and when we see it it makes us smile.  I dare you.