But I was excited.

Last week I opened my mouth when I shouldn’t have.

• I bragged about not being sick all winter.
• I got a flu shot this fall…
• And got egg on my face yesterday.

From chills to soaring heights.

• My fever did it all.
• I was miserable.

As a kid I often had a high temp.

• Mom would put me in the bathtub.
• Then dump ice in.
• Ironically, she doesn’t remember treating my fevers this way.

I used to regularly hit 104 degrees.

• It was either ice bed in the hospital.
• Or Mom and her ice cubes.
• Mom kept me home so I would be more “comfortable.”

Those baths are a vivid memory for me.

• Mom denies being the Ice Queen.
• “A lot of time has passed” she says.
• Talk about a selective memory!Â

Thankfully I seem okay so far today.

(Eating popsicles worked just fine Mom.)

Makes me think of chapter leaders…do you have selective memory about some key element that helped with chapter success - or lack of results?

Originally posted @ Cynthia D'Amour on Leadership and Life