Yesterday was a good day. The sun was shining down on Early Learning Centre as we held a mini prize giving ceremony for the winner and runners-up of our Design A Superhero competition. The Carnival Queen came and did the presentations, my fellow team members came and clapped and the Echo photographer took a photo. Best of our Jake, our winner, couldn't stop smiling. He was so happy. I hope he's enjoying his new bubble machine. In fact that makes me think where my bubble machine is.
The presentation was therefore about praising children for their creative designs and giving them certificates to prove it. What I didn't do then was give enough praise to the people who made it happen. Thank you to my team mates forcoming and standing outside ELC basically for 5 minutes clapping - their enthusiasm and dedication to our fundriaisng and my crackpot ideas is brilliant. thank you to the Early Learning Centre - their generosity in letting us come and do our own thing under the ELC name, with ELC products was perfect. Most importantly, thank you to everyone who came up with ideas - suggesting let's get the Carnival Queen to come along (which was the Carnival Queen herself), saying let's go outside and do this, thinking this is how I'm going to change the world.
We need to say thank you to people more often. Not just 'thank you for serving me in a shop', but 'thank you for that idea' or 'that's inspried thinking' or just 'i like your passion'. We need to make everyone feel valued becuase you know what, everyone is valued and everyone deserves praise. And it's free. To truely appreciate what someone does for you is to make their day and to continue inspiring them.
"Once you start to spread it, baby if you let it, love will comes right on back to you."
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