Red Shoes

  

Red Shoes

                This is a good example of how some teachers either lose their passion to education the future generation of children.  It's disturbing to see how they don't care about teaching and basically letting time pass by until they receive their next paycheck.  It takes a lot of guts for a student to stand up, speak their mind and let them know how they feel about the situation.  In this case, it was education.  The red shoe student did not hold anything back and let the teacher know that giving a packet to students is not going to keep them interested in wanting to learn.  The TRUTH stands loud and the teacher knows that he was right.  That is why she told him to "get out"!  There are good apples and bad apples in every bunch.  There are good and bad teachers too but it does make a difference when a teacher feels passionate about what he or she is teaching.  It automatically shows and students become more responsive and they strive to get a better grade in class.

Success?

What prevents your success?

              What prevents me from being  able to succeed in having success is "Me".  It's up to me to have a positive attitude, to have fortitude and the passion that drives me to push harder to obtain my goals.  There are obstacles that might interfere during this process like health, death in the family or financial issues could prevent my success.  How I choose to handle problems  that arise in my life is an important factor.  If I'm not careful, I could lose focus and it can delay or hinder me from moving forward.  The key is to not lose focus.  In terms of issues that come into play in life, I must have fortitude.  Fortitude is having the ability to endure.   It will give me the strength to continue.  

              Another key factor in connection with fortitude is having a positive attitude.  The very second I doubt myself would be devastating.  Having a positive attitude and surrounding myself with positive people will strengthen my ability to endure.  The last ingredient in achieving success is "passion".  Passion is the fire inside my soul.  Passion automatically paves the path of having a positive attitude that drives me to have fortitude.  It is all linked together  and I cannot succeed if one of the ingredients are missing.  

"If I trip and fall down, I would brush the dirt off and GET BACK UP"!  Failure is NOT an option.  This is how I visualize in obtaining success in anything I do in life.  In the book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless was successful in leaving his old life of a young privileged man of materialistic excess.  "At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence (Krakauer, pp. 22)."  Once Chris graduated from college, he methodically planned his departure of his old life into the new life where his great Alaskan odyssey" begins.  He ventured alone on the road as a leathertramp.  After two long years he reached his final destination, Stampede Trail, Alaska.  

                It was on the Magic Bus #142 that led to his demise, Chris fulfilled his goals by traveling on foot with only the bare essentials he carried in his backpack.  His success was based on living off the land, hunting and gathering berries.  No phones, no T.V.'s or any electrical gadgets.  Chris was alone and "Into the Wild", his ultimate happiness.  

Jon Krakauer "Into the Wild" on Oprah Winfrey Show

Les Brown - "Its Possible"

How do you define Success?

How do you define success

     Most people have their own definition of what success means to them.  I took the initiative of asking fifteen different people how they would define success.  I gathered the three most popular answers and they said 1) career 2) person's status in life 3)  material items they have or have not.  

            Success is something a person acquires on how well they lived their life.  The first measurement of success is a person's career.   Their job title will determine the salary.   People connect success with how much a person earns.  The higher the salary the more successful he becomes in his career.  A person's career plays an important part in surviving in society.  In order to survive in today's society, one must have a job to support them self/and or support a family.  Furthermore, an increase in pay rate will give more of an advantage in buying a home, or have insurance (health, auto, home), and provide food for their family.  To get any  assistance from the government is considered and classified as low income families .  You could visualize a person with a good career, plus more income, equals better support for the family.  Society considers the family to be successful.  They are completely independent and " fully sufficient on their own."  Families that are dysfunctional  are usually low income therefore; poor  and receives some type of  government assistant.

         On the same token, people judge others for the things they have and don't have.  It does look like the person is materialistic.   For example; When a person drives a car like a BMW or a Porsche, people will show more respect or treat them better than a person driving a Ford Pinto.  Those people want to improve their status and willing to acquire better cars and bigger houses.  The more expensive a vehicle cost the higher quality and performance it possesses.  "Oh, the Johnson's just bought a new Jaguar XJ12, they must be earning a good income or they must be doing well?" It's very superficial but society will and have been known to "Judge a book by its cover" and attribute it to success.