Be Like A Four Year-Old Kid
By David Wygant

During a recent coaching session with a client of mine named Joe, I recorded part of our session and decided it would be a great thing to share with everyone here on the blog. The lesson I was teaching Joe is something that is great for all of you to remember.

So, enjoy this transcription of part an actual coaching session where I’m talking to my client Joe about why being like a four year-old is so important and how to be like this in your everyday life.

Joe, we talked earlier about being like a four year-old kid. And the difference between an adult and a kid is that a four year-old kid looks at the world with wonderment. Everything a kid looks at is unbelievable. Everything’s new. They ask questions. They’re amazed at some of the little nuances in life.

An adult walks around and they’ve seen it, so they have no child-like qualities anymore, right? They’ve driven through the same neighborhoods a hundred times. They’ve gone to the same supermarket a hundred times . . . but they don’t find the joy in just the little things. Joe, you were saying earlier how your grandson takes the joy out of all the little things.

So your goal in life is to find the joy in all the little things. So every time you go into a store, it should be like the first time you’ve gone into that store.

Did you see the way when I went into that store that I looked at everything? I noticed everybody. Did you see the way the woman behind the cash register smiled at me? I looked around and was looking at everything. I was smiling. My energy was good. I was enjoying myself. I was present. I was having fun.

I’d never been in that store, but it doesn’t matter if I’ve never been in a store or I’ve been in there twenty times. Each time I go in, I pretend it’s the first time I’ve ever been in that place because people notice that energy.

People look at you and they notice you are like a man-child (a mature one not an immature one), and they’ll look at you with such amazement because you’re going in there and actually enjoying everything.

You’re enjoying every second of that. You’re not on the phone. You’re not texting anybody. You’re not preoccupied with other people’s stuff.

You’re just thinking about yourself and the enjoyment you’re having. And in turn people will want to talk to you, like that woman in that store. I asked her what she thought about those shoes cause I thought she worked there. But I did it in such a nice way, that she didn’t respond in an insulted tone with “I don’t work here!” She just went with it cause I was open and I was present.

That’s what being present is. Being present is being able to recognize every little thing around you.

Todays video is all about how to tap into that inner 4 year old and have fun meeting an approaching women.