Today is Going to be a Great Day.
Posted by: Toby Fischer in education, future, issues, tags: 21st century skills, great day, Voice RecorderI started my day off like most; shower, coffee, in the car for my 30 minute drive… Then the juices started flowing. I had a new thought. A potential solution to a dilemma I was faced with last week. Then, I hit a traffic jam that I knew was going to cause me to be a little late. Usually I start griping and looking for people to pass, not today. Today I pulled out my iPhone, opened the voice recorder app and started talking. The ideas were coming out faster than the rain of the day was coming down.
Then…
It hit me. I control this everyday. I don’t control everyone else. I control me. This is such a simple concept. Why don’t we all see it? In education there is so much to get overwhelmed with. Last week I sat at meeting and everything that came up boiled my blood a bit. Many of these decisions just didn’t make sense to me.
What I thought about today was, this is reality. How to I affect this reality positively? If I join the gripers, I just become part of the problem. I stop progress. As a leader in the area of 21century skills, it would be hypocritical for me to impede progress.
I’m not saying I am going to stop working for what I believe in. I am going to change how I frame things in my mind. If this is reality, what can I do to this reality to make it a positive one? I am going to make every day a great one!
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September 28th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
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October 13th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Hello,
I was scrolling through and I read your blog about your day. I really liked how you said today is a reality, the only person you can change is yourself. It made me think of the Secret CD. I am in control of my reality and if I chose to have a horrible day today, then that is how my day will go. Its good to see that someone else is also at that level where they are saying they want to positively effect their environment with their good attitude.