Try the REVERSED Thinking!

I recently met with a mother who was complaining to me that her daughter, currently studying in a secondary school, is reading too many storybooks. I was surprised to hear that. But, the mother was not without reasons for saying that, and in fact, she said it with much sense of disappointment and helplessness.

The issue at hand is that the daughter gets so caught up and perhaps, I should say, addicted to reading storybooks one after another, so much so that she seems to have overlooked and neglected her studies. Rightfully, reading is a good habit many find it hard to form, and here we have a case of good habit that dies hard, but sadly, it dies the wrong way.

The mother has been trying very hard to dissuade her from reading too much so that she could at least spend an adequate amount of time to catch up on her schoolwork, but to no avail.

Keeping things in control and striking a balance in life are things that many of us always strive to do but not all have succeeded. Many of us tend to get carried away doing things we enjoy most. But, it is pretty ironic that most of the things we enjoy doing don't make us successful; and things that will make us successful, we somehow don’t enjoy doing them. The same applies to our diet. Most foods that taste good are not good for health, whereas most foods that are good for health don’t taste good.