Exactly!<\/p>\n
Success for me was not the high score. I wanted to move and have fun getting some exercise. So, I felt very successful! She, on the other hand wanted to win with the highest number of points. And she did.<\/p>\n
A few months ago, shortly after the holiday season, I was playing \u201cJust Dance\u201d with my children. \u201cJust Dance\u201d is a dance video game where the participant\u2019s movements are recorded and scored by how close they match the movements of the dancer on the TV screen.<\/p>\n
My purpose was to get moving after the holiday over-indulgence and to have fun doing so! My children\u2019s purpose was to have fun and probably laugh at Mom. My son, who would hardly move his body, could move the sensors just enough to match and would often, to the annoyance of his sisters, outscore them, even surpassing the sister who is a natural dancer and could have been the one on the screen. Me? I was just trying to keep up.<\/p>\n
As I was celebrating my first successful dance, by congratulating myself and telling everyone in the room how awesome I was, (I had to be my own cheerleader) one daughter, not agreeing with my assessment, said, but \u201cI won.\u201d<\/p>\n
Feeling that since she had not exerted herself very much and that I had gained the most out of that dance, I replied. \u201cBut, I was more successful than you.\u201d She then said something profound, though she may not have realized it at the time. \u201cIt depends on your definition of success<\/strong>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Exactly!<\/p>\n Success for me was not the high score. I wanted to move and have fun getting some exercise. So, I felt very successful! She, on the other hand wanted to win with the highest number of points. And she did.<\/p>\n
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