When people who try to help you by encouraging you, by making suggestions, by practicing what they preach – sometimes obnoxiously – when they stop doing that, you know what I’d do if I where you?
Worry.
Start Worrying When They Stop
Tag: Impossible
Impossible To Enjoy?
Ever love something, but because of things that seem out of your control, you realize that it’s almost impossible to enjoy?
Life is hard. No secret there.
Figuring out how to survive the daily, relentless pressures that come at us is part of life.
Our son (9) attends Catechism on Wednesday nights. Four years ago, I would drop him off and then sit in the parking lot doing work on my laptop, until PREP class was over.
Three years ago, I changed the process and became a volunteer, as a classroom assistant. The lead teacher has taught Catechism for about 15 years – a real pro.
Over and over in my mind, I mentally rehearsed being an awesome teacher, for those unexpected nights where I’m in charge. One that inspires nine-year olds to pay attention and be fully engaged. It never happens the way I visualize it. Quitting seems like the best alternative to racking my brain and emotions into despair.
Sometimes the lead teacher is unable to attend, leaving me at the mercy of the students. Call it the substitute-teacher syndrome.
Chaos.
It happens every time I am the (solo) lead teacher . They eat me alive with their ability to manipulate and control the classroom energy.
But not last night.
To Think is to Learn twice
Thinking is one of the hardest things to do, which is why many people spend so little time doing it. I’m not talking about routine thinking, like what to pick up at the grocery store.
Thinking, as in deep thinking. Self-reflection thinking. Contemplation. Self-examination. Questioning.
Challenging thinking. Painful thinking. Honest thinking. Uncomfortable thinking.
Spiritual thinking. Which, if we are lucky, will lead to prayer – and conversations with God.
Doing this, the difficult thinking, will actually lead to learning something twice. But the second time around, we come to understand it and not just know it.
Child Earns Money on Internet Business
Child earns money on Internet Business.
I recently have been challenging our son to find a way(s) to earn money on the Internet.
You know, set up a lemonade stand out by the road.
Except, those days are simply a fond memory. In today’s world, why not the Internet? Why not as a child?
What’s holding me back from thinking this is possible?
Nothing.
Because I think it’s completely possible, guess who else thinks it’s completely possible?
Exactly!
Anything holding you back?
Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
How Do You Do It?
“How do you do it, Jeff”?
“Do what”?, I ask back.
“All of it”!
“Not sure exactly”, are the words that come out of my mouth.
“Then why do you do it”?
“Ah, that I can explain“, as I smile with a ready answer.
“Because as a teacher, I believe it’s absolutely critical to practice what I preach. Period. End of story”.
My friend gives me a funny look – part surprise, part frustration and disappointment – from my answer.
Remember the tag line at www.Lane8.org ?
“If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”! — jeff noel 🙂
Carpe diem, and reach for the sky! jeff 🙂