The work that matters and the work that makes you happy.
If what you’re doing doesn’t fall into one of these categories then it’s not work, it’s drudgery.
Stay Positive & Hope You Realize That You Can’t Do One Without The Other
Garth E. Beyer
Change
Let’s Start Schooling Dreams
Even though I’ve worked on writing this for nearly a year, and worked on researching this for 16 years, this may not work.
Just over a year ago Seth Godin asked everyone, “What do you think we ought to do about education?”
Well, here is my answer: Start Schooling Dreams (click the link to download)
Start Schooling Dreams is my 35,000 word manifesto answering the question. It’s completely free and I will be working on creating different formats of it to suit your liking – I simply couldn’t wait any longer to give it to you.
I want to make one thing clear before you open up and start reading. The goal here is to start asking questions and you’ll hopefully realize this very quickly as you read. This also means that I want you to ask me questions. Let’s get a discussion going, let’s connect, let’s change what school is for.
Feel free to print this out, email it to friends, family, teachers, random school administrators.
After you start reading, I encourage you to come back to this page and leave a comment giving a shout out to “that one teacher.”
Lastly, thank you for giving this a shot, for facing the obvious, for making time to act. I truly appreciate all you’ve already done, all you’re doing, and all you’ll be wanting to do. What do you say? Let’s Start Schooling Dreams.
Stay Positive & Yea, Things Are Going To Change
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Two-Pronged Tactic To Change
To change your life in whichever way you want, you have to change your thinking, your view, your thoughts, your mind – change what you think. You have to change what you see, and the quickest way to do that is also the fastest thing you can do: change what you think.
With hundreds of thousands of thoughts every day, changing your mental pictures isn’t difficult. I always take respite in knowing that the single most sure way to stop any negative feelings is to stop thinking about what is causing those feelings.
- To change what happens on the outside, just change what happens on the inside.
The second tine in the two-pronged attack is the real battle: changing our actions to reflect our thinking.
If I am feeling lonely (everyone is) and I start thinking about hanging out with friends, the change in thought and feelings are only temporary. I have to then perform praxis. I have to do the action which is the result.
Praxis is about boldness and boldness is the willingness to initiate action without guarantee of results. And you can’t be bold until you come to terms mentally.
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“What we do comes out of who we believe we are.” – Rob Bell
Stay Positive & The Two-Pronged Attack Is Actually A Cycle
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Isn’t It Nice
to know that tomorrow is a day that has no mistakes yet.
You ready and willing to change that?
Stay Positive & Go Make A Rumpus
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Top Blogs And Blog Posts (2012)
These are the top 5 blog posts in the sense of the number of views.
- Unlocking Potential Interview # 3
- Unlocking Potential Interview # 5
- Choose, Don’t Cheez-It
- Out-of-the-box relationship bonding activities
- Business Networking
These are the top 5 blog posts of my choice and popularity.
- Stop Trying To Make More Jobs (sister post)
- Turning Beauty Into Art
- A happy life written in stone
- Rome was not built in a day but …
- Safety first: the art of preparation
These are the top 5 blogs I kept up with throughout the year. Admittingly, Seth Godin’s is the only one that I read nearly every single blog post from. The other blogs I stop by every week or two.
- Seth Godin
- Michelle Welsch
- Tim Ferriss
- Garth Beyer (yes, I read my own material often.)
- Positively Positive
Enlighten Others
Change Is Coming After You
People have a problem with making something good into something great. They get contempt with it being good so they never change their minds when offered a chance for improvement. That’s why so many people who want change, have to argue so much why the thing they want to change is bad as it is. When really they don’t think it’s bad, it’s merely standard. Standard is okay, but it could be better. Unfortunately, if you want change, you can’t admit that.
To persuade those to quit being contempt, you have to show them why something is bad. They can argue all they want that things can always be worse, but I say that things can also always be better. So how do you construct an argument for improvement? Simple.
What both parties can agree on is that change is constant and everything else in the world keeps changing, and you can’t hold on to being contempt with something because the laws of life don’t allow it. The time between you being content and the world forcing it to change is a waste of time. It’s a race for improvement, either you can lead it or the world around you will.
Tough choice.
Not so much.
Stay Positive & Keep Changing And Testing For Improvement
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
This Week’s Schedule
Your schedule, that is.
Monday: curiosity
Tuesday: open-mindedness
Wednesday: intellectual courage
Thursday: thoroughness
and to top the Friday off: Humility
Don’t worry, you won’t be graded. Although, I can’t stop you from grading yourself.
Stay Positive & “A” For Effort In My Mind
Garth E. Beyer