Reconnect With the Child Within

Do we, sometimes, wish to be a child again?
We felt free, we never wasted a minute thinking about the future. Mommy was the best, the world seemed to be so colorful and perfect. We didn't care about what people think about us at all, when we were screaming, giggling, doing stupid things. Everything seemed to be easy, teddy was our best friend, nobody told us to "finally grow up". We miss these days.

Where did the child inside every one of us go as we grew older?
As we have grown up, our appearance as well as our hearts have no longer remained as that of a kid. In the race of life, we are somewhere caught up in doing things - for the business, for the work, for others and stopped being carefree and colorful we used to be in our childhood.

Why did it happen?
We forget that there is a child inside each of us and this child wants to become out and play. The problem is that we have suppressed it with so much burden that it has gone into hiding. Some of us have never lost touch with this unique part of ourselves. Just like there are many to lose the child in us, there are many ways in which we can reconnect with the child that is inside us.

There is a child

In everyone of us

That leaps ahead in joy

Holding slender fingers

Of molten adulthood

Playing with the stars

Smiling at the sun

Eyes of mischief

So innocent, so pristine

Tugging at my sleeves

The child calls my name

Embracing me with love

In its sweet soft world.

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

So what happens if we get the child out?

Well, it will make us more relaxed emotionally and spiritually making us happy and healthy. We will enjoy live and start living in our present.

How to reconnect with the fun-loving part of you?

Here are some ideas for reconnecting with the fun-loving part of you that may just have disappeared under piles of hard work and life's burden.

• Go to the playground after dark. Run, swing, slide, play in the sand or grass bare foot
• Go to a funny animated movie. If you feel silly doing this alone, take along a child
• Collect toys. Play with them when no one is watching
• Collect children's books/comics and read them when you're feeling down
• Watch comedy/cartoon movies - laugh out loud
• Adopt a puppy
• Go fishing
• Buy a fish tank and take really good care of it
• Make paper boats and race them
• Take up a hobby as a family: biking, your favorite sport, visiting museums, library trips, putting together puzzles, learning a new language
• Stop obsessing over calories. Have a lollipop. Have a chocolate fudge. Run around madly afterwards as a kid would do and you'll soon burn off those calories!
• Never say the phrase "I am too old"
  
  Let's get the child out. You are never too old to play or to dream a new dream...
  
  
  Just be happy without a reason, keep a smile all the season,
  Life is too short to be stressed, so stay happy, stay blessed!!

Work on Networking

Networking is the single most powerful marketing tactic to accelerate and sustain success for any individual or organization.

It isn't just going out of your way to meet the 'right' people, rather it is creating and sustaining relationships with a group of people that you know and trust, that you will help if asked, and who will help you.

Why Network?

1. Learn dynamics within industry
2. Establish your business contacts
3. Get "plugged in" to your community
4. Seek new career opportunities
5. Facilitate win-win relationships
6. Create your referral networks
7. Accelerate your professional development
8. Develop knowledge resources

Ultimately, it's not about who you know...but WHO KNOWS YOU!!

How Network?
You can build a network internally as well as externally.

Internally,

1. Be visible at your job - don't hide in your office or cubicle
2. Volunteer for projects and make yourself available
3. Expand your lunch partners
4. Meet and talk with new coworkers and continue to communicate with them on a regular basis
5. Be informed, know where your company is going. You may want to brush-up your skills or broadening your knowledge.

Externally,

1. Join a professional organization, group or community within your field
2. Regularly attend the meetings, meet new people and benefit from the information and knowledge presented through seminars and speakers
3. Join an online professional network such as LinkedIn. You can add your professional memberships/organizations to your profile for added visibility. Invite your contacts to join and continue expanding your network with updated information.

Cultivate an influential network which makes your life more successful, fulfilling and rewarding.

Final word
Remember that in the end, it's not about quantity, but also quality. A smaller group of quality relationships is going to be that much more effective that a very large group of contacts that you hardly know. Build quality relationships and keep them strong. Working together is much easier than going it alone!

Relationships are the catalyst for success. People do business with those they like and trust. Serve as a resource, help others succeed.

Just be happy without a reason, keep a smile all the season,

Life is too short to be stressed, so stay happy, stay blessed!!