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Want To Make A Start On Goal-setting And Self-motivation Skills With Kids?
By Sid | June 2, 2008
When you build the habit of goal setting and positive motivation in kids from an early age, you give them the best possible start in life. If you want to build the habit of goal setting and positive motivation in kids, this great idea I read about recently could be a place to start. We don’t get taught how to build the habit of goal setting and positive motivation in kids in the normal course of events, so those who want to build the habit of goal setting and positive motivation in kids have to go out of our way to find help and resources, and to trade information.
It is so important to build the habit of goal setting and positive motivation in kids. the mainstream media pours a relentless torrent of negative and demotivational messages at kids, and kids are easily sucked in to spending hours sitting like blobs and consuming those messages. Watching television actually changes the brain activity, making it more difficult to get up and turn the thing off. It has an almost hypnotic effect. Only by working doubly hard to get the right stuff in during the early years can we give our kids any resistance against the new “opiate of the masses”.
The education system, too, is not set up to build the habit of goal setting and positive motivation in kids. If anything, it is the opposite.
As Robert Kiyosaki points out in his first book “If You Want To Be Rich And Happy, Don’t Go To School”, the education system creates in kids an absolute terror of making mistakes.
Successful people are willing to “give things a go”, even if they don’t have all the answers before they start. They accept that mistakes are the price of progress, and they simply adjust their course according to the feedback provided by their mistakes.
Entrepreneurs, in particular, are willing to fail. As Winston Churchill said, “Success is the ability to go from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm”.
We know the education system crushes the kids who “fail”, even on one single occasion during their school career. It still stunts the ones who don’t fail, because they are still imbued with the crippling fear that they might fail at some point, and suffer the awful fate that befalls those who do.
It comes back to the caring adults around each child to try to undo the damage done by the education system. Kids rely on their families and communities to rebuild their spirit and encourage them to take risks, to do silly things, and to shrug off the tag of “failure”.
A system constructed the way our traditional education system is constructed is just not able to build the habit of goal setting and positive motivation in kids. If you are teaching kids money skills, the education system won’t give you much support. Fortunately, with the internet, there are more and more resources available for people who want to build the habit of goal setting and positive motivation in kids.
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