!What is Your Focus?
Here’s a story of a mother and her 7-year-old boy, both of them like to eat fried milkfish, a kind of sea fish. As you know, milkfish is a very delicious fish with a lot of tiny bones and this is very dangerous for young children. After the mother separated the meat from the bones, she gave it to her boy. But one day, she did not want to separate the meat from the bone, she just gave him the fish. She wanted her son to learn to separate fish bones from the meat. The boy did try to do what his mother asked him to but a few minutes, he gave up. “Mom, I cannot eat it, there are too many fish bones,” says the boy. His mother gently says, “My son, look at the fish meat. Do you see more meat or fish bones?” Mom, of course there is more meat than bones,” says the young boy. “So, do you know why you cannot do this? It is because you focus more on the bones. You do not focus on the meat.”