What can I do?
Problem solving wheel
- Walk away and let it go
- Tell them to stop
- Go to another activity
- Rock, paper, scissors, go
- Use and I statement – I feel…
- Apologise
- Talk it out
- Ignore it
- Wait and cool off
The will must be stronger than the skill – M Ali
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The 5 Tribes Agreements
Tribes is a community building process that establishes a
caring environment for cooperative learning. It builds a common school language through the use of the community agreements, I statements and community circles among students, staff and parents. These are the community agreements:
1. Attentive Listening: Listening in a caring way. We listen with our eyes (we are looking at the speaker) our ears (we are listening to the speaker) and our hearts (giving them our full attention to show we care)
2. Appreciations (no put downs): This agreement ensures that our students are always speaking to each other in a positive and encouraging way. Put downs and insults are not acceptable choices; instead, we encourage using “I messages” to express feelings and needs.
3. Mutual Respect: This agreement creates mindfulness about the word “respect”. It helps students to understand that we all deserve to be treated respectfully and with care.
4. Right to pass: Choosing the right to pass means that a student needs time to think or process what is happening during a learning experience. We allow the student some time to think and the community can come back to them to check-in to see if they are ready to share in the community. This is NOT a pass on learning or participation.
5. Personal Best: This agreement allows our students to understand that they are expected to work hard and give their best with everything they do and try. Everyone is an individual with their own abilities, talents and skills, but as long as we work hard and try our best, we will succeed.
6. Safety with Body and Heart: This agreement reminds us to use our words and not our hands to communicate feelings and needs. It also reminds us that “words matter”; teaching mindfulness around how we express feelings and needs to others.
When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
Hands above the head like a winning olympic sprinter or hands on hips like wonder women are power poses.
2 minutes of a power pose increases testosterone and descreases cortisol.
Testoserone aids in dominant behaviour and cortisol is associated with stress reactions or how someone deals with stress.
By using the body language to control physiology in the body behaviour can be enhanced for positive outcomes.
Amy Cuddy
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Talented Musicians
Sony Music Executive
Young talent has a moment – if that moment is not acted on quickly or captured then they will likely never become well known or famous as the moment will be past.
From Quora.com
Dating and Relationships: Due to my circumstances, I have to pick between my girlfriend, whom I absolutely love, and my dream job, which pays 5 times as much as I currently make. What do I do?
My old psychology lecturer taught me this one.
Flip a coin. But do not focus on whether it comes up heads or tails.
Instead, focus on the moment the coin went into the air. What were youhoping would happen? Were you hoping it would be tails and that the universe is telling you to stay with your beautiful partner? Or were you hoping it would be heads, to take a risk on that new job venture? Believe me, you already know what you want. Bring the answer into your consciousness!
Good luck 🙂
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Finance
Its easier to stay out of trouble than get out of trouble ~ Warren Buffett
Its easier to stay out of trouble – not take risk and not lose money – than it is to take a big risk lose money and then try and get even better returns in future to get it back.
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All work and no play
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
James Howell‘s Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish (1659)
This is closer to the truth:
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy – unless he has a purpose and a vision.
And a short term imbalance in the work-life ratio might just create something that otherwise would never be created and could well create more free time later.
‘The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.’
Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect
We all need beacons of light as we struggle with the inevitable setbacks of life and work. For me, that light has often come from studying Winston Churchill. In the early 1930s, Churchill’s career had descended into what biographer Virginia Cowles called “a quagmire from which there seemed to be no rescue.”
At the end of Volume I of his series, The Last Lion, William Manchester captures Churchill’s position in 1932. Lady Astor visited with Joseph Stalin, who quizzed her on the political landscape in Britain. Astor prattled on about the powerful, the up-and-coming, naming Neville Chamberlain as the star.
“What about Churchill?” asked Stalin.
“Churchill?” Astor’s eyes widened. Then with a disdainful wrinkle of her nose, “Oh, he’s finished.”
Not only would Churchill redeem himself by giving voice to Britain’s resolve to stand against the Axis powers during World War II, he also went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, return again as Prime Minister at age 77, be knighted by the Queen, and sear into the Cold War lexicon the term “Iron Curtain” in his prescient warning about Soviet aggression. Churchill’s simple mantra: Never give in—never, never, never, never.
Never give in. Be willing to kill failed business ideas, even to shutter big operations you’ve been in for a long time, but never give up on the idea of building a great company. Be willing to evolve into an entirely different portfolio of activities, even to the point of zero overlap with what you do today, but never give up on the principles that define your culture. Be willing to embrace loss, to endure pain, to temporarily lose freedoms, but never give up faith in your ability to prevail. Be willing to form alliances with former adversaries, to accept necessary compromise, but never—ever—give up on your core values.