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Date: 10 Oct 2011
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Whether you are a teacher, parent, relative, boss, or fellow community member, each of us has a chance to make a positive and impactful difference in a child’s life. But in order to do this, we must carefully consider this question: What do you think matters most to our children? For 20 years I have been posing this question to my students. At the beginning of every school year, I would ask my students to give me advice on how to be their best teacher. I asked them to think about the times they felt most successful and to consider what the adults in their lives did to make this success possible. The classroom would become immediately silent as the students wrote intensely for longer than they had ever written before. Smiles would appear on their faces as they reflected on the happy experiences they were remembering. After reading their responses I would add to my list all the ideas they mentioned. Surprisingly, many of the responses were the same. Year after year, in every grade level, content area and classroom I was in, regardless of demographics or background, students were saying the same things and had the same message: It’s the small things you do that mean the most. That is what they remembered. That is what mattered. Here is a list of the 12 Most Important things that came out of these amazing conversations.: 1. Greet me each day Wish me good morning, and send me off with a “see ya tomorrow.” 2. Smile When you look at me, let me see happiness in your eyes. 3. Give me your attention Sit and talk with me privately; even if only for a second. 4. Imagine with me Help me dream of things I might be able to do; not just the things I need to do now. 5. Give me challenging content and assignments Show me how to handle it. Teach me what to do. 6. Ask about me Inquire about my weekend, the game a played, the places I go. It shows you care about my life. 7. Let me have time Time to let things sink in. Time to think. Time to reflect, process, and play. 8. Demand of me Hold me accountable to high standards. Don’t let me get away with what you know I am capable of doing better. 9. Notice Me Leave special messages in my desk or locker. Just a quick not that says you notice something right. 10. Let me ask the questions Even if they are off topic. It will show that I am thinking about new perspectives, curious, and willing to learn more. Let me have the chance to show what I am wondering about, not just what I know. 11. Engage me I came to you in love with learning, keep me excited, keep me wanting more. 12. Trust me Believe that I can do it. Allow me the chance. I promise to show you I can. These words did not fall on deaf ears. I collected them, honored them, and then promised I would do everything within my power to be the teacher they needed. What matters to the children in your life? It’s worth a conversation, I promise!<a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ "How can I get 7-8 hours of sleep when I'm with my kids from the moment I arrive home, and I need some time for myself before bed?" "How can I find time to exercise when I have to get up early in the morning and I'm exhausted by the time I get home in the evening?" "How can I possibly keep up when I get 200 emails a day?" "When is there time to think reflectively and strategically?" These are the sorts of plaintive questions I'm asked over and over again when I give talks these days, whether they're at companies, conferences, schools, hospitals or government agencies. Most everyone I meet feels pulled in more directions than ever, expected to work longer hours, and asked to get more done, often with fewer resources. But in these same audiences, there are also, invariably, a handful of people who are getting things done, including the important stuff, and somehow still managing to have a life. What have they figured out that the rest of their colleagues have not? The answer, surprisingly, is not that they have more will or discipline than you do. The counterintuitive secret to getting things done is to make them more automatic, so they require less energy. It turns out we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it gets progressively depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation. In other words, if you spend energy trying to resist a fragrant chocolate chip cookie, you'll have less energy left over to solve a difficult problem. Will and discipline decline inexorably as the day wears on. "Acts of choice," the brilliant researcher Roy Baumeister and his colleagues have concluded, "draw on the same limited resource used for self-control." That's especially so in a world filled more than ever with potential temptations, distractions and sources of immediate gratification. At the Energy Project, we help our clients develop something we call rituals — highly specific behaviors, done at precise times, so they eventually become automatic and no longer require conscious will or discipline. The proper role for your pre-frontal cortex is to decide what behavior you want to change, design the ritual you'll undertake, and then get out of the way. "It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing," the philosopher A.N. Whitehead explained back in 1911. "The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them." Indeed many great performers aren't even consciously aware that's what they've done. They've built their rituals intuitively. Over the past decade, I've built a series of rituals into my everyday life, in order to assure that I get to the things that are most important to me — and that I don't get derailed by the endlessly alluring trivia of everyday life. Here are the five rituals that have made the biggest difference to me: Abiding by a specific bedtime to ensure that I get 8 hours of sleep. Nothing is more critical to the way I feel every day. If I'm flying somewhere and know I'll arrive too late to get my 8 hours, I make it a priority to make up the hours I need on the plane. Work out as soon as I wake up. I've long since learned it has a huge impact all day long on how I feel, even if I don't initially feel like doing it. Launching my work day by focusing first on whatever I've decided the night before is the most important activity I can do that day. Then taking a break after 90 minutes to refuel. Today — which happens to be a Sunday — this blog was my priority. My break was playing tennis for an hour. During the week it might be just to breathe for five minutes, or get something to eat. Immediately writing down on a list any idea or task that occurs to me over the course of the day. Once it's on paper, it means I don't walk around feeling preoccupied by it — or risk forgetting it. Asking myself the following question any time I feel triggered by someone or something,: "What's the story I'm telling myself here and how could I tell a more hopeful and empowering story about this same set of facts?" Obviously, I'm human and fallible, so I don't succeed at every one of these, every day. But when I do miss one, I pay the price, and I feel even more pulled to it the next day. A ritual, consciously created, is an expression of fierce intentionality. Nothing less will do, if you're truly determined to take control of your life. <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ What are the most important things in life? What do the proverbs, the wise sayings of man through the ages, have to say on this point? Let us search them. If we did so we would come up with the following list: - the basic necessities (food and shelter) - a good wife (or spouse) - good health - a good conscience - a good name - wisdom, understanding, good sense, spiritual knowledge, understanding of ourselves and life Now let us ask another question. What things are most commonly pursued by man? What does the common, ordinary man pursue in life? We can list them: - temporary pleasure (gratification of appetites) - material possessions, wealth - social position, being "important" - friendship, friends, acceptance by a group When we ask the question "What are the important things in life?" what we really mean is: "What things in life bring the best happiness?" Both are just different ways of phrasing the same question. What a person pursues in life depends on what he values. His values, basic tastes and preferences, determine his priorities and the way he occupies himself and spends his time. The most basic, underlying values of the wise man are Wisdom, Understanding, Justice, Goodness, and Virtue. These are his first loves. They are what drive him, determining his tastes and preferences. The ordinary man, however, has as his first love pleasure and the other things we have listed. He occupies himself with the pursuit of Thrill and Temporary Pleasure. He focuses on the temporary pleasures available to him through catering to his base appetites. He spends his time in front of a TV set watching programs that excite his fantasies and provide him temporary thrills and erotic pleasure; he finds his pleasure in eating, sex, gambling, coarse humor, alcohol and drugs. The wise man, on the other hand, is driven by a different set of tastes and preferences, likes and dislikes. He is attracted to that which gives spiritual understanding. He is interested in the serious questions of life and society. He is interested in the problems of his fellow man. He is interested in the dilemmas of life --- spiritual, moral, economic, etc.. He is interested in spiritual and moral truth. And he tends to prefer activities that aid him in these interests -- that provide insight, knowledge, perspective, etc.. He is likely to be a lover of reflection and also of books. What is wrong with the pursuits of the common man? The problem with these pursuits is that most of them are illusory. They don't give real happiness, or the best happiness. And many are also destructive, destroying morally, spiritually and physically. The wise man, the man of understanding, knows there is a God and he puts spiritual things first. He is a god-fearing person who lives by God's moral law.<a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ How is a person's character determined? Life is filled with temptations, obstacles, frustrations, inner struggles and dilemmas that we all have to cope with, things which test our character. I think character is built according to how we deal with these as children. It all depends upon the decisions and choices we quietly make within ourselves as we are growing up. And the choices and decisions we make are dependent on such highly personal things as courage, strength of character, personal ideals and standards, etc. How important is teaching, training, and moral instruction for developing the character of a child? It is probably highly helpful but not necessary. Why? Because moral knowledge is within us. God put it there for us, for our sake. We all know right from wrong from birth. Parents, in teaching us, correcting us, and disciplining us, simply reinforce that knowledge of right and wrong within us. My parents did not spend much or any time actively teaching me moral precepts. They did correct me when necessary on this and that. I don't think the issues were usually moral. They expected me to act sensibly and responsibly. They were strict and used physical discipline. They demanded obedience. I was raised on hard farm work. Neither of my parents drank, smoked, swore or used any kind of low or bad language. There was no off-color humor in our home and no instances of immoral conduct. My mother made sure we went to church. I was raised in a morally clean home. In that way my upbringing was different than that of many people. <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ I think the character of a child is determined by the extent to which he is true to that knowledge of right and wrong within himself, the extent to which he listens to and obeys the still, small voices within himself. What voices do I mean? I mean the voice of conscience and the voice of prudence, wisdom, good sense, good judgment. The habit of listening to and obeying the voices within creates character. Plus the habit of reflecting, thinking, and observing life and people. One observes the virtues, faults and mistakes of others in learning how to live life. In the creation of character each of us is quietly on his own, silently making personal decisions, unknown to anyone, that will decide his future character. He quietly decides whether he will lie or tell the truth, do the job right or fake his way through, etc. It is the prudent, wise child that develops good character. When one has gotten out into the world and seen much of people one is impressed by the great diversity and variety in the characters of people. <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ I will illustrate with some of my own character traits. One of the things that distinguished me as a child was that I was persistent. I would never give up on a problem. When I couldn't understand some idea or concept in school I kept at it until I understood it. I wouldn't give up. I wouldn't admit defeat. I felt I could do anything anyone else could do. Defeat was unacceptable. I remember this in my childhood. Where did this habit come from? Did anyone ever teach me this as a precept? No. The habit came from within myself. I instinctively knew within myself that it was very important to me psychologically never to give up on a problem, to never admit defeat. The habit came from an inner knowledge, a voice of prudence within. Some people are very careless and untidy. They drop their belongings everywhere and are a mess. I have always been very methodical and tidy. I put things where they belong. Everything has its own place. Where did this habit come from? It came from a voice from within. I don't think my mother had to tell me when I was a boy to put my things away. I put them away because I was a conscientious boy who listened to the voice within. The voices of conscience, prudence, good sense told me to put things away. Some children are ruled and controlled by the voices of conscience, prudence and wisdom within themselves. They have good sense, good judgment, and are ruled by it. They have personal standards and are ruled by them. They have a personal integrity that they hold stubbornly to. I am sure that in my case the voices within were connected to my love of the Bible, knowledge of scripture, love of God. I was supported by my strong spiritual foundation, my knowledge of scripture. I am not perfect. I have made many mistakes and still feel ashamed of them when I think of them. <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Do all children hear these voices of conscience, reason, prudence, good sense within themselves? I am sure they are there within all of us. God put them there for our own sakes. But there may be some interference. They may be drowned out by other voices. What other voices? The voices of the crowd. Peer pressure. All the wrong and bad voices impinging upon us from every direction in our modern society. Our own selfishness or perverse inclinations. I believe that the greatest enemy of the voices within is the crowd. When I was a boy I was very skeptical of the crowd. I didn't trust it. I stayed away from it. I believed then, and still do believe, that the crowd is the great destroyer of morals. To be true to God one has to walk a separate road. The extent to which a person is able to maintain his integrity in life depends a great deal on his willingness to avoid the crowd and walk a separate path. God's way is not the way of the world. You can't have both --- God and the world. You have to choose. God's way is not the way of the masses, the majority, or of the intellectuals of this world. They are all on Satan's road. <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Cakes, pie, pastry, sweets, sodas are good. We all love them. If we just follow our natural inclinations, do whatever we like, let base appetite rule, we would do as a great many people do --- eat them all the time, without restraint. And if we do that, most likely, we will eventually pay the price in health problems. In excess they subtly, over time, do us harm. They act like a poison. Would one knowingly consume something that he knew to be poisonous to him just because it tasted good? Don't people do that all the time? How about the habits of smoking or drinking? Reason and prudence don't rule with most people. Base appetite and inclination rules. There is another habit that is harmful to man. What is that? Watching television. Smoking, drinking, excess consumption of sweets is poison to the body. Watching television in our modern day is poison to the soul. At least here in America. Why is that? It is so because television projects the outlooks, attitudes and values of the screen writers, actors and producers of the programs. And the screen writers, actors and producers in our modern western societies tend to be of liberal outlook, on the very leading edge in moral corruption, atheism and godlessness. They project their degenerate, immoral, godless outlooks and attitudes in their works and the masses of the society sit for hours in front of their TV sets ingesting it all. You become what you eat and the masses are voracious eaters. They don't know they are being spiritually deceived and duped at the cost of their own soul. They don't realize that they live in a world ruled by that most articulate of all liars, Satan. They just imbibe, absorb and believe. And why shouldn't they? With little or no spiritual foundation, they don't know the truth. They don't know moral lie when they hear it. One assertion is as plausible as another. One outlook and viewpoint is as good as another. And what they hear appeals to their base appetites and inclinations. It is like eating sweets. They consume it with gusto. It all justifies their lowest instincts. The television programs year after year, a little at a time, desensitize the population to immorality and wickedness, pushing moral standards lower and lower. Homosexuality is portrayed as acceptable. Sexual immorality is glamorized. Obscenity is the new norm. In this way, the screen writers, actors and producers are leaders leading the population down that broad road that Jesus referred to when he warned against the broad road and in favor of the narrow road. Like credulous sheep the masses just blindly follow, oblivious to the eternal consequence. <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ In addition to all this, in a society that reveres science, the field of psychiatry, purporting to be scientific and authoritative, lends its support and "credentials" to the modern atheistic, humanistic outlook. Products of a degenerate culture, they use their social status and weight to support godless, moral degeneracy. And the politicians all follow. The government follows. And the schools follow. And the population is led down into the moral abyss, starting with the school children. In all of this the population finds itself in direct conflict with the teachings of Christianity. And in response Christianity is either twisted into something that conforms to their moral degeneracy --- some degenerate, apostate form of Christianity --- or is perceived as erroneous, radical and unacceptable, an enemy of truth (their truth). <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest thyself, thou mayest let go thy tutor. Seneca <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Every one stamps his own value on himself. Man is made great or little by his own will. Schiller <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Above all things, reverence thyself. 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Prov 14:3 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, And before honor is humility. Prov 15:33 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ The LORD will destroy the house of the proud, But He will establish the boundary of the widow. Prov 15:25 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; Though they join forces, none will go unpunished. Prov 16:5 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, Than to divide the spoil with the proud. Prov 16:19 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. Prov 16:18 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before honor is humility. 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Prov 13:10 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off. Psalms 138:6 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. Psa 25:9 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. Psalms 37:11 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov 3:34 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Prov 26:12 <a href=http://www.cooking-games9.com/>barbie cooking games</a> ¦ And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. 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