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I
remember the night in Miami when our son, Ian, was just five years
old. We were staying with relatives and it was his bedtime.
When I
looked at the living room floor, I knew we had a problem. Toys were all
over the place.
"Ian," I said, "you need to pick up all those toys
before you go to bed."
"Daddy," he said, "I'm too tired to pick up my
toys."
My immediate inclination was to force him to clean up the room.
Instead, I went into the bedroom, laid down, and said, "Ian, come
here.
Let's play Humpty Dumpty."
He climbed up on my knees and I said,
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall", and he
fell. Ian laughed and said, "Let's do it again!" Well,
after the
third "fall," I said, "Okay, but first go pick up those toys."
Without
thinking, he ran into the living room and in ninety seconds he finished
a job that could have taken half an hour. Then he jumped back on
my
knees and repeated, "Daddy, let's do it again."
"Ian, I thought you
were too tired to pick up those toys."
He answered, "I was, daddy, but
I just wanted to do this!"
We can finish any job when we have the "Want
to!"
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