Remember the neighbors who bought your awful lemonade for a quarter? They were investing in your confidence.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Adults buying bad lemonade know exactly what they are buying. The product is undrinkable and warm, the price is absurd, and they hand over the quarter anyway because they are purchasing something else: a kid finding out that effort and a table can produce a customer. That is a deliberate investment, made quietly, in somebody too young to notice it is happening.
Be a customer for somebody starting out this week. Buy the cookies, book the car wash, order from the kid with the new business, and be visibly pleased with it.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Who paid for your bad early work just to encourage you?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- In spring the birds start singing before sunrise whether you’re awake to hear it or not. Catch it once.
- The person who checks on your grandma when you can’t is carrying a piece of your family. Thank them.
- Your older sibling went first and took the hits so the rules were softer by the time you got there.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.