Realistic Goals

I'm now a motivational speaker. Today, I talked to a group of students at Thomas Edison High School. Edison is a local HS exclusively for students with learning differences. I dropped by for their latest assembly to talk about my experiences as a dyslexic author.

I tried to make my talk entertaining. Most teens have short attention spans, and Edison has a large ADD population, so humor seemed like a good strategy for my motivational speaking debut. Some of the tidbits of wisdom I had to share were funnier in my own head than students'. There was one thing I said that resulted in so much laughter I had to stop talking for a good ten seconds to wait for everyone to calm down.

So I'll spare you my thirty minute oration and just share that one line here.

I would love to be a great speller. I'd also love to learn how to fly. It's important to set realistic goals.

There you have it. Realistic goals are definitely a good thing. Thankfully, being a good speller isn't a requirement for being an author. Having an imagination is. I might not know how to spell big words like of, but I've always been a fabulous daydreamer.