Kids don’t inherit your speeches. They inherit your habits. Pick the habits you’d want copied.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Children, younger siblings and new teammates learn from the parts of you that run automatically. Instructions get filtered, while behaviour gets absorbed whole. Anything you do reliably is being taught, whether or not you meant to teach it.
Pick one habit you would be glad to see in somebody who looks up to you and strengthen it this week. Then pick one you would not want copied and make it less automatic.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which of your habits would you be glad to see copied?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- Every adult you meet was once a scared kid. Treat people like their younger selves are still listening.
- Ever read the names on park benches? Somebody loved those people enough to give strangers a place to sit.
- You’ll sell your first car someday and feel weird about it. Things hold the years we spent with them.
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