On the occasion of Mother’s Day, I think it’s a good idea to share this reflection and my own experiences with you. Talk about the indisputable role in the training of people and future professionals with values that we all have, since without them, the influence that a person has on those around them is negative. Plain and simple.
Let us not stop educating our children with values to develop future leaders, without forgetting the sense of humor and patience.
Before getting into the topic, for me a mother is that person who is responsible for caring for, educating and loving the children with whom she lives, either because she gave birth to them, because she adopted them, or because they are the couple’s children. , either because the aunt takes care of her nephews because her sister can’t, or many other situations that I know of. Today my son showed me a story on Instagram from a good friend of his, who shared a photo of when she was little and her father (who has full custody) had fallen asleep next to her while she was doing a nap. In the story she says: “Happy Mother’s Day, Dad.”
We all have a leader within us, I assure you, I have been seeing it for years in my training with entire teams. Each and every one of us has the ability to develop the quintessential skill that leads us to be happier, gain confidence and succeed in whatever we set our minds to. Leadership is a skill like any other, it can and should be developed in all people, regardless of what position they occupy in society, in a home or in a company.
I am the mother of two teenagers, 17 and 15, whom I have educated and raised practically alone due to life circumstances, and today I am proud to see that they are undoubtedly good people and have values, basic characteristics to be a good leader, a good friend, a good son and a good person. If I analyze the main reason that has made them this way, I see that it has to do with the example that I have given at home with them since they were little (in recent years consciously and in the first years more by common sense and even for survival).
They saw that I had to work very hard, make great sacrifices to move forward, to emerge successfully from personal situations that therefore affected our lives and make some tough work and family decisions for a few years. During that time, I had to make good use of my energy, so that I did not lack it, I learned to develop my positivism, see in problems opportunities to learn or improve, organize my time very well to achieve everything, I continued training, I took care of myself and I fed well so as not to get sick since I couldn’t afford it – who was going to take care of them and take them to school – and out of responsibility: if I miss work someone has to do my part and that is selfish. In those years I needed them to take care of and take responsibility for tasks to help me, because there was no other option, nor was there anyone else who could help us. I told them that we were a team. Although sometimes I felt sorry for the situation, I realized that it was good for them, it made them mature and especially value more the things we had in the scarcest times. What always helped me was something as simple as never giving up and never losing my sense of humor under any circumstances.
When time passes and you look back, you see that everything you have been sowing finally bears fruit, just like what happens in a company. You see as a parent that they learn from our example. And you see them at home and at school being responsible in team tasks, since they have learned that otherwise it affects the rest of their classmates, not just their results. You see that after years of crushing concepts and good habits, they have learned to be generous, to take care of themselves, to eat well, to be honest, tolerant (my children have lived in several cities, they have gone to several schools, they have moved house several times). times and as a consequence, they have learned to be optimistic and see that everything that is new is good) adaptable, flexible, perseverant, they have learned to cooperate to achieve more in less time. Now I see that they don’t drown in a glass of water. They are very empathetic, since when their friends have not been empathetic, or they have not been empathetic enough with their friends, we have analyzed it and seen how bad everyone involved has felt. They are very creative, and I make sure that they do not stop being so, since it is one of the characteristics of the leader that makes them, among many other things, think of several solutions to a problem and choose the most creative and the most beneficial one. .
Now that they are teenagers, I think it is still important to continue instilling what I know will help them be happy, such as having a vision for the future or setting goals, which is difficult for me, because something that defines adolescence is today and now. I also continue to insist, as I said at the beginning, on instilling in them that to be successful in what they undertake, it will be possible as long as they do it with perseverance, believing in themselves and with effort, and I remind them that this is what a good person must do. leader. That is what is most difficult with the little one, because the development of the technology that surrounds us sometimes goes against the effort. So now I make sure that he is motivated by whatever he needs to do.
Look at this image from the 2008 movie Wall-E, which many of you will remember because it won an Oscar for best animated film and where we see the lives of people lying in chairs, where they are given food and drink and they don’t have to. make no effort. At least for me, who feels comfortable on a tightrope, far from the comfort zone and who doesn’t like to stop learning or contributing, it’s not life.
To finish I say, happy Mother’s Day to all of you who treat with love, respect, equality, honesty and admiration the children you help educate and be generous with the people around them, so that they learn to develop that leader within them. Our future depends on them.
Thank you to those who have taken a few minutes of your time to read me, I hope it has inspired you. There is no age to improve and evolve.
