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Twister, the Vintage Game that Teaches a Crucial Lesson in Personal Development
How many of you remember Twister?
The Milton Bradley game with four rows of six large colored circles on a big plastic mat.
Each row had circles of red, yellow, green, and blue.
I remember it well.
It’s the game that’ll either give you a good workout or put you in traction for life.
It resembles an aerial view of the tangled, spaghetti-like interstate system of our great nation.
For a chubby kid growing up in the South wearing husky blue jeans, Twister wasn’t a pleasant experience for me.
When the game is played correctly with everyone stretching and reaching for the colored circles on the mat, the result will be a mangled, twisted contortion of human limbs.
But let’s look on the bright side. After all, this post is supposed to be encouraging.
Here are a few uplifting and positive benefits of participating in Twister.
· Twister promotes closeness.
· Twister encourages laughter.
· Twister advocates exercise.
· Twister builds motor skills of coordination and balance.
But, more importantly, Twister teaches a lesson about how to deal with the unexpected downturns in life.
How do you respond when a “twister” comes your way?
· When the company you’ve given your best years to decides to downsize or restructure and your job is terminated?
· When you’re told the results of a scan and it’s the dreaded “C” word?
· Or when your 10-year-old faithful, dependable car is on its last leg, and you’re now faced with a car payment on a budget that’s already razor thin?
· When a virus contaminates everybody in the house and the lava of vomit erupts on your feet, face, and everywhere in between?
· When your world flips upside down because your spouse unexpectedly passes away?
Twisters will come in life.
That’s a fact.
And they often come without a warning.
Calamities, twisters, catastrophes … or any other guttural terms you apply to the negatives of life catch us off guard and try our souls.
They blast the wind out of our sails.
And their left and right hooks knock us down for the count.
Or so they think.
But you and I get up time after time.
We live for another day.
And that, my friend, is personal development.
-Howell
One more word ... Is there a personal development topic that you'd like for me to write on? Send me your suggestions at howellbigham@theencouragementexpress.com
Let’s encourage each other,
-Howell
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Vitamin E(ncouragement)
Here's your weekly spiritual vitamin!
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."
-Psalm 46:1
Motivating Mouths
"I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring."
-Helen Keller
Word of the Week
Cataclysm - "an event that causes alot of destruction, or a sudden, violent change."
-Cambridge Dictionary
Motivational Music
Listen to Twister's Gonna Twist, my AI song.
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