I am trying to capture Oprah when she looks
in my direction. I've never been quite as excited and
scared at the same time.
I was reading a journal from the days when I taught Positive Psych at
Seneca College. I'd forgotten that one of our exercises was the Whoop
exercise. I'd ask my students to put their hands in the air, envision
something wonderful that they wanted to happen and then yell
whoop in joyous enthusiasm. They actually loved doing it, and
miraculously no other teachers ever knocked on my classroom
door telling us to quiet down.
I would often say after we did the whooping --"you watch me -- I'm
going to be on the Oprah Winfrey show." They took that with a grain
of salt until the thing actually happened. And the students from
the semester before it happened found out, and then they were
blown away. "Miss! Miss!, Miss!" one student yelled -- "This
is unbelievable." "Yes!" I said, "but it's true. It happened."
Try the whoop exercise in your car if you have no private place.
Imagine something you'd love to happen (positive -- not
negative), raise your arms in the air, whoop and say you won't
believe what happened!" Awesome.
Have a loving your life day!
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