My son taught me a simple, but important lesson the other day with a turkey sandwich.

I often join him at school for lunch. I almost always get a wrapped turkey sandwich while he chooses the “hot” lunch. He always asks me why I get the sandwich. “Because I like them,” I say.

The other day I came home from work, and on the kitchen table waiting for me was a wrapped turkey sandwich from school.

He came up to me, and said: “Dad – I brought you home a turkey sandwich because I know you like them.”

Wow – I was speechless. What an amazing thing he did – that we, as adults, are often too wrapped up in ourselves to remember:

He paid attention to what I liked and remembered it.

Timothy Velner is a husband, father, attorney and author living in Minneapolis. You can follow his daily blog – a series of discussions between the worry-self and the present-self at – thespiritualgym.me