24 results for author: Joseph
What Do You Love: People or Possessions?
There is probably a stark difference between the gifts of love, patience, kindness, and emotional support, given to you by your loved ones and the list of technological devices you may have remembered in question one. Despite that realization, it’s the possessions in our life that fill our time, while our loved ones are sometimes forgotten. It’s as if we use people and love our possessions instead of using our possessions and loving people.
Whether it’s our newest gadget a new car or our next cup of coffee, there is a drive to always want more. Author Matthew Kelly said “you can never have enough of the things you don’t need.” ...
Personal Reflection
Have you ever wondered why children love to play video games? Obviously they are fun, but there is a much deeper reason. Children love video games because the games offer instant feedback. If someone is playing a football video game and he runs a play that keeps failing, he calls a new play. That instant feedback is quite different from what we see in education. For instance if I collect one hundred essays on a Friday, it will take me over a week to return them. By that time, the students are learning something new and the feedback is less important.
Change is impossible without feedback and the most important feedback is your own. However, in ...
Environment
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”- Jim Rohn
If you want to change, you need to stop and look around at your environment. Who are your friends? What are they like? What do you do with your free time? Who do you surround yourself with? What is your day-to-day life like? Do you wake up full of energy or dread another day? Are you healthy, or do you feel lethargic? When is the last time you prayed for something more than your favorite sports team to win? These are just some of the questions you need to ask yourself before you move forward.
If you surround yourself with people who talk behind other people...
What Are You Missing?
"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled" Bill Watterson
As a teacher, I often struggle with the students who don't do their homework. For various reasons, assignments don’t get done. One day I asked my students what they were doing instead of their assignments. Some had legitimate excuses, while others said that they had no idea. Apparently time just escaped them. As adults, we don't necessarily have assignments, but we do have goals and dreams that escape us as well. We spend our lives doing things that seem to matter at that ...