Life – The Teacher

Written by Clyde Dennis


You’ve probably heardrepparttar phrase "repetition isrepparttar 128709 mother of learning" well apparently it’s alsorepparttar 128710 mother of teaching. Often it seems, Life – The Teacher usesrepparttar 128711 tool of repetition to imprint into our brainsrepparttar 128712 lessons it’s needing to impart to us. At least this has been my experience.

It has become clear to me that life givesrepparttar 128713 same tests over, and over and over again until we demonstrate that we’ve learnedrepparttar 128714 lesson by passingrepparttar 128715 test. This teacher seems more than happy to show us again and again why it may be a bad idea to take a particular action, or choose one direction over another. The good news here is that it works both ways. Like any good teacher choose properly and life smiles. Choose improperly and life corrects.

Sometimes I wish and think that it would be simpler and easier ifrepparttar 128716 teacher would just make all of my decisions for me and let me know exactly what I’m supposed to do, but of course that’s notrepparttar 128717 way it works. In this teacher role life is just an administrator, not an advisor or counselor. Life is there to administer and graderepparttar 128718 tests.

Once you passrepparttar 128719 test however, Life records your grade and moves on torepparttar 128720 next lesson. But don’t completely discardrepparttar 128721 lesson you’ve just learned as over because it’s not. You may not see or have to deal

The Pledge

Written by Clyde Dennis


You know kids, one ofrepparttar things I've learned by letting more people know what's going on inside my head is that once you do people expect you to live up to what you've put out there. I've sort of learned onrepparttar 128707 fly here that using this knowledge as a burr underrepparttar 128708 saddle that is my life accelerates my growth. Where I used to piddle (piddle's a FUN word to say...) around on things that I was working on internally and hadn't publicly disclosed, it's become clear to me that if I make it wide spread knowledge that ‘this is an area I'm working on getting better in’, you guys and girls let me know when I've missedrepparttar 128709 mark. Thus becoming yet another source of motivation. The basic philosophy here being you sharpen me, I sharpen you, we encourage, lift up and motivate each other.

With this in mind I’d like to suggest a few things that we might all collectively work on . Hold still a minute would you. I need you to be my sharpening stone. Inrepparttar 128710 new millennium and beyond here are just a few ofrepparttar 128711 things you can look forward to from me. If you’d like, you can join me in reaching for greater success in any or all of these areas.

Let’s appreciate more ofrepparttar 128712 things that tend to go unappreciated. The little things we take for granted. When wasrepparttar 128713 last time you really stopped and consideredrepparttar 128714 fact that there are people who have never “seen” and never will? When wasrepparttar 128715 last time you were thankful for it? The gift of sight is no little thing. Is it?

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