Think About It

Why do you do what you do? How do you
know what you know? How do you do what you do? Think about it.

As much as you are busy and don't feel you have the time to stop and think, you should. Have time to soak it in. You can't control your time, but you can manage it. Every experience should teach something new, even if it strengthens the importance of a past lesson.

The role that blogging plays for me is sharing memorable experiences and my reflections. I influence the thoughts of other people positively so that they want to influence others. How about you? What does blogging mean to you and value to do share?

Welcome to the interwebs, and I hope I've made you think about thinking for at least a few seconds.

Why do you do what you do?

January42013

Ken Robinson - Educating the Heart and Mind (Quotes from the talk below for summary)

- Education must move toward diversity and not conformity

- It’s a humam resources crisis. People need to know what they are capable of.

- Out of about 80 billion people born on Earth, 10% of them are on the planet today.

- The problem is the ideology of education, the values and assumptions.

- to be born at all is a miracle. YOU MADE IT.

- Every school should be different and great, not a fast-food model of education

- what are chicken nuggets? It’s a conspiracy? We should be TOLD! (Haha!)

- the plague of ADHD is a false epidemic (900,000 falsely diagnosed in 2010)

- when cuts begint o be talked about and standardization becomes the order of the day, the hierarchy of education becomes apparent.

- we associate certain subjects with hard and soft knowledge, which leads to labeling subjects “unimportant”

- students are too much thought of “”minds in a head” instead of developing people

- I think and feel, therefore I am.

- We may go as a species. Planet Earth may try to shrug us off. “We tried humanity, not so good. We gave it fifty thousand years….” - The Onion

- We live in two worlds (The world you in exist in and the world that exists because you exist. YOUR INNER AND PRIVATE CONSCIOUSNESS.

- We try to bridge these two worlds. Education problems are caused from not bridging these two worlds.

- I think we pay a high price for the exile of feeling in education.

- Feeling and knowing are parts of the came complex of a whole being. Feeling is a perception affected by our thinking.

- Education should connect ourselves with ourselves and ourselves with each other.

- We have to recognize that education is personal

- We have to put the arts back into education. We express our own unique individual humanity in these.

- Learn to embrace mindfulness and apply it in experience

- Most educations are impersonal and mechanistic. People are not mechanism, they are organisms.

- Schools have much more freedom then we often believe they do. How the school is run is really up to the leadership of the school and the collective will of the people running it.

- Education and human life is organic

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January12013

Happy New Year, everyone!

May you continue your journey of creating yourself every minute of every day through doing what you love most, creating awesome things with awesome people, and challenging yourself. The credit belongs to the individuals in the arena…

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. - Ralph W. Emerson

When you squeeze and orange, orange juice comes out. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside you. - Wayne Dyer

December312012

Because all of you are awesome and I’ve had my biggest note explosion at the end of this year, here is one more. It’s amazing to think how much positive influence you could cause with one simple video. I want to create on Youtube more often.

Thanks. : )

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December222012

Hey, learners. Where are you going to be as much as possible at the end of every day?

December172012

Boredom - Too Much Human Thinking or Random Activity

Let’s surround our minds around boredom.

The continuation of a monotonous and repetitive day gets most people. The force of mediocrity and going on autopilot. Meaningful situations can become so minuscule and unnoticeable that we begin to dread daily routines and focus on the struggle with it instead of the benefits. Confucius wants all of us to find a job we love so we never work a day in our life. The key isn’t the right job; it’s the right attitude. Unfortunately, we do work. We need to make money. It doesn’t come by itself (Oh, if only it did). Our search for meaning and productivity in our work is a challenging journey. The big question is: are work and fun really separate? I think work and fun can be one to some degree. Boredom is good and bad. Work is good and bad. Fun is good and bad. You need some moderation.

Here we go again with seeing the large scope. There will be days when work seems impossible and when work is a piece of cake. Depending on your mindset, boredom can be good, bad, or BOTH. If you don’t wake up in the morning with goals and the determination to do things and grow, you will be bored. Simple as that. Too much human thinking. If you wake up and just be busy all the time, it’s too much human doing. Activity does not always equal productivity. Doing what is right does. Balancing it achieves being a HUMAN BEING. You BE. You think and do together. As they say, bored people are boring. Okay, not in a fixed mindset and permanent way.

There is healthy boredom and obsessive levels of boredom. The challenge is fighting boredom with all your willpower, with meaningful activity and self-directed growth. Stop at nothing to start something. Just go for it.

Rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber in your being that makes you…well…YOU. Wake up with determination, end the day with satisfaction.

Alright? Now make a bucket list and create yourself! : )

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