WHERE TO FIND LEADERS

WHERE TO FIND LEADERS

Leaders are hard to find. But there are two places you will find them. In a group and alone. When in a group, they will be serving, teaching and standing for one thing. The rest of the group will be speaking, sitting or complaining about anything.

When alone, leaders will be thinking, reading or solving something. They will be planning, praying and looking into the future. Others will rejoice in having no work, loss of options and living for the day. For them, the past was okay, and the future has not yet come. There is nothing to worry about. Sometimes there is a little confusion about the work leaders do. But when you look at them in a group and what they achieve on their own, it soon becomes clear to you who you would rather have lead you.

Leaders have the ability to take on duty as part of life. They think we, rather than me. They think goal rather than role. That gives them authority among those they lead. And makes them precious members of a team. You can spot them easily if you know what to look for. Leader are hard to find but at least you can identify them when you do.

 Allan

 

TRADITION

It is amazing how tradition makes you feel old, Or how old tradition makes you feel.

REBUILD THE WALLS OF FAITH

REBUILD THE WALLS OF FAITH

The walls of faith are built on hope. They are built with fears and tears. No one knows when those walls will fall, but everyone knows they must be built.

The walls may be weak and even look strong. But it is not stone that holds up these walls. It is the strength to cope when they fall. One time, two times, three and maybe more. But each time the wall must be rebuilt.

The wall of faith is the will to forgive, the will to live and the will to will again and again. The wall of faith is built on love and leads to the hall of fame. No matter what, when all is said and done, this wall must be rebuilt.

It is not how long these walls will hold or if they ever fall at all. But what matters is that there be a wall. Without faith, your life is an open gate and nothing guards your soul. No matter how many times they fall, you must rebuild the wall.

Allan

WHY YOU NEED MORE EDUCATION

WHY YOU NEED MORE EDUCATION

The old approach to learning is to get knowledge. Knowledge was found in a classroom. School had a monopoly of classes.  The bright rose up, the not so clever dropped out. School also made social classes for those who got an education. The knows had the jobs while the know nots got to do the work. If you missed school, you missed knowledge.

If education is limited to school, then no one else is learning. This would mean that knowledge stays still and does not change. The value of a person in life must then be limited to the time in which he or she went to school.  After school, that value fades with time. School has fading returns in life unless that value is updated. You could go back to school or you could learn how to learn and then learn for life.

Education is too important to be limited to school. Your growth depends on you remaining relevant. The world is changing. Much as we may not want to change with it. It is changing us. And changing the way we see things. The good old days when everything was sure and easy are gone. We must now use the newer, available tools to realize the goals of long ago and where we want to go. For these three reasons, you need more education.

Allan

WHICH EXAM DID YOU PASS

WHICH EXAM DID YOU PASS?

It's a great feeling to pass an exam. It tells everyone else that you know something. Before that, only you knew that you knew. Exams are proof of knowledge, but not proof of what you know. The true test of what you know comes after the exam.

Many people prepare well for exams. But have no idea how to use what they know. There are too many farmers looking for jobs than farms. and too many writers looking for jobs than writing. And too many MBAs looking for jobs than starting a business.  Passing exams is a great thing. But it is the use of what you know that is the real benefit. Which exam did you pass; knowledge or use?

Allan

YOUR VIEW DECIDES YOUR DAY

YOUR VIEW DECIDES YOUR DAY

The answer to a simple question can explain much of what is going on in your world. It may also explain what is happening to you. Some people get out of bed on the right side, while others get out on the left. Whichever side you got out of bed, you spend the rest of the day in the world. Do you see the glass as half full or half empty?

For those whose glasses are full, the world gets better by the day. For those to whom the glass is empty, it only gets worse. The full, enjoy the beauty, abundance and the benefit. The empty feel the pain, the rain and have every reason to complain. For the full, there is a future. For the empty, there is only the past. You can see the good or evil. You can see the boss as a stop or as a gap. A job is either a business or a burden. Your view will create enough work to keep you busy for the rest of your life.

How you live your life depends on how many times you get out of bed in the day. It is possible to get out of bed many times a day. If you get out empty, you miss the day. If you get out full, you have the rest of the day. Take it, you can make it. Run with it, with all your might and have yourself a very great day!

Allan

MAKE SCHOOLING A SOCIAL PROGRAM

MAKE SCHOOL A SOCIAL PROGRAM

If your child was taken away from you at the age of six, brought up in another country, and returned to you at age 21; immature, beautiful, well built - with a beard. How would you cope? Imagine telling this “child” that this is the real world. Imagine telling them that the world owes them nothing. Imagine trying to explain to them how to live in the world they have been away from for as long as they can remember.  How successful would you be?

Yet this is what we do when we send our children to school and expect them to turn out as model citizens. Many school programs isolate students from society. Why do we isolate our kids in schools and release them at the end of 10 years into society with no idea how to; handle money, talk to the neighbors or work with people from other schools. Why do we get shocked and complain about dropouts, copouts not cut out to fit in a society from which they were left out?

In the old days, schools set children apart to prepare them for local jobs. Today society needs to give them jobs in a global world. Kids need to be in society in order to be part of it. The key may be to make learning a social and not a school program.

Allan