Finding Humor

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Finding Humor

• looking for the whimsical, comical side

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Thinking Interdependently

• working together

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Remaining Open to Continuous Learning

• learning from experience

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Stephen Coveys 8 Habits for Effective Living

• Be proactive
• Begin with the end in mind
• Put first things first
• Think win/win
• Seek first to understand then to be understood
• Synergize
• Sharpen the saw
• Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs

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Be Proactive

• Those who take responsibility for their lives and
  those who make it happen.

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Begin with the End in Mind

• Having ones own mission statement that serves as
  ones blue print or lifes map to follow.

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Put First Things First

• Learning to prioritize and manage ones time so
  that first things come first, not last.

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Think Win/Win

• Believing in one self and in others.

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Seek First to Understand Then to Be Understood

• Listening first and talking second.

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Synergize

• Experience higher level of energy attributed by
  celebrating differences and diversities.

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Sharpen the Saw

• Taking care of self and keeping your personal
  self sharp.

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Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs

• Finding your purpose and meaning in life and
  inspire others to find theirs.

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Conclusion

• Whether in the home, in educational institutions
  or anywhere else, the environment should be
  founded on truth, honesty, and free from hollow
  absolutes of which we ourselves are not quite
  persuaded.
• Putting the physical environment together is only
  the first step in creating the prepared
  environment. Then comes the task of using that
  environment to create and re-create on a daily
  basis.
• The physical, intellectual, and spiritual
  properties of its world will become the prime
  matter for its self-construction.
  
• The prepared environment is ultimately, an
  attitude, and not a place.
  

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Children Learn What They Live

• If a child lives with criticism, He learns to
  condemn.
  
• If a child lives with hostility, He learns to
  fight.
  
• If a child lives with ridicule, He learns to be
  shy.
  
• If a child lives with shame, He learns to feel
  guilty.
  
• If a child lives with tolerance, He learns to be
  patient.
  
• If a child lives with encouragement, He learns
  confidence.
  
• If a child lives with praise, He learns to
  appreciate.
  
• If a child lives with fairness, He learns
  justice.
  
• If a child lives with security, He learns to have
  faith.
  
• If a child lives with approval, He learns to like
  himself.
  
• If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,
• He learns to find love in the world. -Anonymous

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Selected Quotes

• The secret of education is respecting the
  pupil.
  
• One of the most important things a teacher can
  do is to send the pupil home in the afternoon
  like himself just a little better than when he
  came in the morning.
• Ive come to a frightening conclusion that I am
  the decisive element in the classroom. Its my
  personal approach that creates the climate. Its
  my daily mood that makes the weather. As a
  teacher I possess a tremendous power to make a
  persons life miserable or joyous. I can be a
  tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
  I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all
  situations, it is my response that decides
  whether a crisis will be escalated or
  de-escalated and a person humanized or
  de-humanized.

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• When Mother Teresa, the saint of Calcuttas
  poor, died a few years ago, a poem in her
  handwriting was found beside her bed. Whether she
  actually composed the poem remains a mystery, but
  the poem has come to represent an appropriate
  illustration of the human condition.

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Anyway

• People are often unreasonable, illogical and
  self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
  
• If you are kind, people may accuse you of
  selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
  
• If you are successful, you will win some false
  friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.
  
• If you are honest, frank, people may cheat on
  you. Be honest and frank anyway.
  
• What you spend years building, someone may
  destroy overnight. Build anyway.
  
• If you find serenity and happiness, some people
  may be jealous of you. Be happy anyway.
  
• The good you do today, people will often forget
  tomorrow. Do well anyway.
  
• Give the world the best you have, and it may be
  never enough. Give the world the best you have
  anyway.
  
• You see, in the final analysis, it is between you
  and God. It was never between you and them
  anyway.

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• People will have pre-conceived ideas about
  themselves and others.
  
• Educate them anyway.
• - Dr. Ecka