Breathing Life - Joshua Roy's Blog

I have two young boys. They are tremendous. Today after playing JENGA (block game), for about half an hour we decided to play super heroes. The tremendous thing about young boys is they don’t need much help in using their imagination. We all pretended that each of us was a superhero. Then I told a story about a ‘demon wolf’, a ‘monster’, ‘alien’ or other creature that was attacking us. We played this game for at least half an hour, so there were many different ‘bad guys’, and many different scenarios. I told the story first and then each of us acted out our parts. In the end we achieved victory and gave each other high fives and handshakes congratulating each other on being able to save the world once again. It really does feel good to save the world. Let me ask you. When did you last use your imagination in this way? I spent this time with my boys and I wondered what I have taught them. Often they are in competition and fight each other. In this game we used our imaginations and worked together. Unity, teamwork and fun all in our imagination. If you want to…

Today I had a conversation with a man who was extremely intelligent. His mind is so full of information. He presents well and is doing well in his life and in his family. He is a father and was telling me about himself. He informed me that once he wanted to be a speaker, and realised that he was unable to do this because he lacked confidence. As he was speaking his shoulders rolled forward and I observed this occurring. I asked him if he was confident in his life, and to think about a time he was really confident. He could not think of any right away. I asked if he was confident about being a good father. (He had told me previously that he had a great relationship with his children). To this he answered yes. After several minutes of conversation about other topics he told me how he works with young people, and that he has been trying to teach these young people about how to develop confidence. He told me that he believed that if he could get them to develop confidence then they could take control of their lives. I was very interested about what…