Beat The Level

My son and I will share Instagram posts back and forth. Mostly cute animal videos. Videos that make us laugh about funny things dogs or cats do. In between all those, I’ll occasionally send little uplifting things, perspective tips, gratitude or motivating posts.

He has started grade 12 now, so is in his final year of high school. I’m not gonna lie, grade 11 was tough. It was emotional, it was stressful. When we thought things were moving along ok, we suddenly felt wrenched back to reality, when we would learn of work not being done or classes missed. It all comes down to school just not being enjoyable. Computers and video games are where the attention is focused. There are worse things, so perspective is also good for me to remember. He is exactly who he is for a very specific reason. He has the interests he has for a very specific reason, which will all gradually unfold.

I am so thankful for advice from following along Mel Robbins social media posts. One video, which I did share along to my son, she explained something that I didn’t know about her. That when she was younger, she was a gamer. She was really into it. She went on to explain how this practice of gaming and working on beating the game levels were all so helpful with life skills. You work on and practice a level over and over again, until you beat that level. You fail a lot. You fail over and over until you can beat that level and move on to the next level. Then you work on that level, failing the entire time until you can work out everything to beat that level. And so on. It teachers you about setting goals. You set a goal, work on that level until you beat that level. You keep setting goals and advancing. That’s life. You decide on what you want and work for it until you get it.

He started a job before school ended last year, and the growth is noticeable. We taught him to set aside 10% of each pay to savings and 10% to a car account. He now likes to see those growing each pay day. He likes being the guy with money in his account. Others that work with him spend every bit and he has talked to me about his savings goals, particularly that if there is a bigger item he wants to buy, that he would like to have double the amount of the purchase in his account. I am happy he is thinking and talking about these things. Money and the emotions that go along with it can be difficult ~ and life happens, so if he is thinking and planning, then that’s a good start as far as I am concerned!

As far as his gaming is concerned, I have seen him set pretty big goals and ‘grind’ as they say, to get them. He was thrilled when he was able to visualize something, that he then also had a dream about – and it happened for him. He did it. The best part was that he could see how setting the goal and visualizing actually does work. It gave him that ‘reference’ of a positive result of achieving something important to him. Having a reference – remembering the emotion of the success, is perfect when trying to beat the next level in the game of life. Knowing your capable is vital. When you fail a lot and then succeed, that’s when you come to learn that you are capable.

Sending Love,

Devon