P= Pledge Allegiance to Yourself
It’s
our responsibility to find the joy and passion in what we do.
“When
values are clear, decision making is easy”
—Roy Disney
Four
Questions to Help You Keep the Right Attitude
1.
What do I have to be grateful for?
2.
What can I do to make a difference in someone's life today?
3.
How can I challenge myself to get better?
4.
What great thing is going to happen to me today?
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You
can be 37 years old and over the hill,
You
can be 87 going on 29
Age
isn’t living a number of years,
It’s
only a state of mind.
You’re
never too old to be young
If
you make love and laughter part of the plan.
Because
the best thing in life is to die young.
As
old as you possibly can.
We see
things not as they are, but as we are.
Watch
your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; watch your words, for your
words become your actions; watch your actions, for your actions become your
habits; watch your habits, for your habits become your destiny.
O= Overlook
Life’s Little Pot Holes
Rise
Up, Course Correct, and Away We Go!
Look at problems as potential teachers.
Tibetan prayer – “Grant that I may be
given appropriate difficulties and sufferings on this journey so my heart may
be truly awakened and my practice of liberation and universal compassion may
be truly filled.”
Tao
Te Ching – “By letting go, it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.”
Three
questions to letting go.
What’s important?
2. What’s important now?
3. What’s important,
not?
Wisdom comes disguised as struggle,
challenge, and pain.
Life can make you bitter, or
life can make you better.
The
difference between Professionals and Amateurs: Amateurs
perform well when they feel good and they’re in the right mood.
Professionals perform well no matter how they feel and no matter the
circumstances.
W= Wield
Your Sense of Humor
Humor
is your most useful weapon.
Humor
is the ability to find something funny in your predicament and to not take
yourself so seriously.
Great
educators have the ability to model positive playful behavior and support the
playfulness of their students.
Humor
can help create a positive learning environment in which students understand
that it is acceptable to make a mistake.
If
we show students how to use humor instead of violence, we have given a great
gift to the world.
Make
your schools' culture more positive, productive, and fun through rituals.
Rituals positively draw people into the spirit of a vision, acknowledge
work well done, and make work more fun.
Recognize
your stress signals and have a strategy to deal with the stress.
ü
Celebrate the
first stress of the day bother you.
ü
Profanity
with a twist
ü
Call your own
machine and complain.
The
first half-hour is the most critical time of day.
·
Call in
"Well."
·
Have a
positive party funded by negative people.
·
Use Aikido to
defuse tension.
Improving Your Sense of Humor
1.
Use
Self-Effacing Humor—The
highest form of laughter is to laugh at yourself; the lowest is to laugh at
someone else.
The
ability to laugh at yourself, your own appearance, and your flaws and
foolishness is the ultimate in humor.
Humor
rids the need for perfection. Perfection leads to paralysis, which leads to
procrastination.
2.
Be playful—Play
is a joyful activity, done for the sake of the pleasure it brings. Play is
letting go of pressure, worry and anxiety and being open to joy, fun, love and
a passion for life.
3.
Be
Spontaneous and Practice Rehearsed Spontaneity—Always
be on your toes looking for ways to add humor to the remark or situation.
When
someone blushes with embarrassment... when someone carries away an ache...,
when something sacred is made to appear common..., when someone's weakness
provides the laughter..., when profanity is required to make it funny..., when a child is brought to tears..., or
when everyone can't join in the laughter...., it's a poor joke!
Cliff Thomas
If you
can laugh at it, you can survive it.
Laughter
is contagious. Why not infect the
entire community.
E=
Eat Big Bites
If
you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.
Success
can be defined as moving from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
The quickest way to become a victim of
change is to become vested in a “right way” of doing things.
“If you ain’t scared, it’s not big
enough.” “I rather be
scared than bored.” Joe
Calloway
To be
successful, you must be willing to wear your white belt.
R= Remember
What Matters
He
or she who dies with the most joys, wins!
The
day that you are the most powerful is the day you’re willing to give your
power away. The day that
you are the most loved is the day you’re willing to give your love away. To
totally see the beauty of another, you must be willing to reveal yourself.
“Get
busy living or get busy dying.” The Shawshank Redemption
Action Steps:
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