- Share This Post
- Pin It
- 0
- 0
-
Sparkle (0)
To describe my niece, Simone, as very energetic is a wild understatement. She is the kind of teenager who could have your head spinning within 2 minutes of meeting her and have you performing freakish physical feats with body parts you did not know could move that way. As a child she used to place herself in the middle of a doorway and climb the edges with her hands alone. She is captivating, shocking, and beyond charming - that is Simone.
So when I was in Montreal for a family function, we got to spend some time with each other. She came down for breakfast one morning wearing a t-shirt that said:
E = MC2
Miss Moman
After looking at her t-shirt and believing that Miss Moman must be the latest band targeting the teenage crowd, I asked, “Who’s Miss Moman?”
“She’s the Bomb dot com,” was the response I received.
“Is she a new singer?” I questioned.
“No. She’s my math teacher.”
“Your math teacher???” I was amazed and confused. “You had a t-shirt designed with your math teacher’s name on it? Why would you do that?”
“I like her. She rocks.”
“What do you like about her?”
“She’s the best.”
“Okay, exactly what makes her the best?”
“Nothing actually, she’s just awesome.”
“I don’t fully understand. What makes her awesome?”
“She is just cool. We have a pretty good relationship. She lets me do things in class.”
“Like what?” I was-over intrigued. I wanted to figure out what sort of magic elixir Miss Moman was making to elicit such passion from a grade 10 student.
“Well, I will give you an example. The other day I was relaxing on her table and I saw her pencil case. She forgot it in class. So I opened it up and found this cool pen and I started playing with it.”
“You were lying down on her work desk?!?! Who does that? Did she get upset?”
“No, that is the thing, she doesn’t get upset. She is cool with it.”
In my mind, I imagined a circus trainer wanting to control her wild animals. She definitely had no ability to handle her class. I deemed it hopeless for anyone to learn anything in that kind of topsy-turvy environment. “Okay, what are your marks like?”
“Pretty good. I got a 98% on my last test.”
“98%! Wow! That is awesome.”
“She makes me want to work with her and get good grades.”
Still dumbfounded by the Miss Moman puzzle, I persisted with this question, “What do you think makes Miss Moman stand out?”
“Nothing actually. She simply just lets me be me.”
Kim Ades, MBA, President of Frame of Mind Coaching and JournalEngine™ Software, is one of North America’s foremost experts on performance through thought management. By using her unique process of coaching through journaling, she works with clients to unveil and switch their thought patterns to ignite significant change and life transformation. Be the real you in your own personal, free, online journal at www.frameomfindcoaching.com.
