So then I tossed and turned and rolled and thought, what do I write?\u00a0 Will anyone notice I failed on my commitment?\u00a0 Will everyone notice I failed on my commitment?\u00a0 Should I say how busy I was? \u00a0 That I traveled this week, had family and friend in last night for a dinner sending my son off to school?\u00a0 What if I wake up Margaret again at 3:00 in the morning, is she going to kill me this time?\u00a0\u00a0 And, this is not gonna get me one of those At-A-Boys my good friend Doug Reeves was talking about last week when we were meeting in Boston.\u00a0 That’s it!!! At-A-Boys!!!!!\u00a0 Back to sleep.<\/p>\n
Doug challenged me to hand out 5 At-A-Boys a day.\u00a0 Not necessarily to any one specific group, but just give ’em out.\u00a0 Staff, friends, family, associates, or strangers…animals don’t count.\u00a0 So I put it to practice.\u00a0 I decided to leave my kids out of the count as my wife and I spend more time encouraging than correcting, they are really great kids and we tell them they are great regularly.\u00a0 An At-A-Boy, which my mother-in-law would call a BRAVO,\u00a0 takes only a few seconds but can have a long and huge impact on someone’s demeanor at that point in their day.\u00a0 It validates the effort they have put into something, and Maslow concludes it is pretty darn important.\u00a0 And that Mr. Abraham Maslow guy is way up there on my RSG List (Really Smart Guy).<\/p>\n
So go ahead, because it’s like that old Alka Seltzer TV commercial. “Try it, you’ll like it!”<\/p>\n Okay quote on Tuesday is one I coined, and Post on Thursday is about Solution Tree’s Mission Statement.\u00a0 Until then, thanks for reading, and At-A-Boy Doug, great suggestion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It may actually be That-A-Boy, not sure. Do you ever wake up in the wee hours of the morning with a ‘Work-mare’?\u00a0 You know, that problem or project at work that has you stressed, has you tossing and turning, has … Continue reading ![\"Slide1\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Slide1.jpg\")
<\/a>I know I FAILED at my commitment of being on-time with this Thursday’s post, and I promise to do better, but I haven’t failed on my 5 At-A-Boys per day goal, and I don’t plan to stop at 5.\u00a0 When sincere, they are really fun to hand out, they are greatly appreciated, and it makes me think about how hard the person I am At-A-Boying is really working to be successful.\u00a0 My appreciation for others is truly increasing.<\/p>\n