SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2010
FSO_MAC_W4_Being the Board & Framework for Possibility
Often, life delves out circumstances that are beyond our control. I have mostly accepted that as fact. The truth is, it's harder to actually accept it than it is to say you've resigned to that.
And being resigned to something is next to admitting status quo is good enough.
These chapters in The Art of Possibility have sparked a memory. A few years ago I was fortunate to attend a staff inservice presentation by motivational speaker, Sam Glenn. His wisdom, inspired by Zig Ziglar, touched and changed my outlook. I view Glenn, Pinneo and now Zander in the same light: truly enlightened people whose view of life inspires possibility wherever they are.
I have fought the downward spiral and will freely admit that the negative emissions from others also drag me down.
I don't want to be that way, and while they are out of my control, I can choose to "be the board on which the game is played," as Zander says.
This is the act of realizing that we willingly take risks by simply stepping outside the door each day. Rather than blaming and seeking revenge for the wrongs of others, accepting and moving forward with the notion that life happens. As Glenn says, it's about your attitude more than anything else. Sometimes it's good to use the attitude of humor, sometimes the attitude of forgiveness; in all, life is lived fully within the choices we make and our attitudes about them. We don't have to let negativity mold who we are.
Mr. Rainey said...
Willing to take risks is one of the hardest lesson to teach anyone I think. If more were willing to take risks in life and learn from then, I think the educational system would have grown more than it has. Students today just don't take risks. They expect an A just for showing up to class. Learning is about making mistakes from risk taking. Not sit and collect dust like some trinket sitting on a shelf.
Choices are the key guiding factor to a teachers job. How many choices do we make in a day? I can't even count them all.
Peace Donita!
P.S. If you get a chance could you take a look at my presentation at my action research site. The address is in our MAC class google doc. Thanks Kiddo!!!!
May 30, 2010 8:15 PM
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