When did you start your first Job?
Are we expecting too much?
Maybe the family is not ready yet??
The family is unhappy & are we putting too much pressure on?
……..
These are the doubts that Mum has when the family is scratchy the day & night before the first day of work experience.
Lets see & the hardest day is always the first so lets discuss after the 2nd day.
The usual very brief feedback from the family on both days was ‘good’ and ‘I’m tired’.
So I ask many others over the week & it appears that my generation started early.
I know I first delivered the groceries on a bike at grade 7.
I certainly was cutting lawns with a very heavy Masport hand mower in those early years.
Certainly I worked at Woolworths age 14/1/2 at Christmas time & came home with the pollen from the Christmas lilies all over the front of my shirt.
So I reread the Chapter on Embrace Expectations in Legacy.
‘Aim for the Highest Cloud’.
Jonah Lomu says’ we hate coming second to ourselves’.
Richie McCaw on his uncle Bigsy prompting wrote G.A.B. = Great All Black in his childhood.
Sean Fitzpatrick also says
‘You are told in no uncertain terms to remember your losses more than your wins’.
Of course there are more pearls of wisdom in the chapter as
Embrace Expectations
Aim for the Highest cloud, so that if you miss it’
you will hit a lofty Mountain.
Or as I read today ‘Aspirational’.
Or as I also read today Apart from time it takes grit
No Grit...No Pearl.
As I said to Tony at the T.T. Diner ‘he can teach what parents or school can’t teach’.
Day 3 with Tony will be easy so then for the next experience at the vet.
Then the school holidays will have achieved some heights.
Say Yes more often.
