Friday, February 22, 2013
Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?
We have all had the opportunity to ponder this quote about
our perception—is the glass half-empty (on the downward cycle with little hope
for rejuvenation) or is the glass half-full (ripe with possibilities to be even
more successful). Your mindset
surrounding this quote is critically important for all of us. Stephen Covey stated in 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People that, “…all things are created
twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to
all things.” He then goes on to bring
this notion into view when he talks about the design of a home that is so visualized
in a person’s mind that when the blueprint is drawn, those thoughts are easily captured. It would be easy to focus on what isn’t working in education
today. It would be easy to focus on the
glass half-empty when we read the newspaper and watch the news. At Entrusted Legacy we believe that the way
to combat the “half-empty” glass is envision “a cadre of
well-trained people that form the nucleus around which learning organizations
are built.” We believe that this cadre
of people, well-prepared to be a positive role model and mentor for youth, can
change the future. The first creation
was determining what knowledge and comprehension needed to be shared with these
positive role models and mentors. The
second creation was developing a system that would be available to youth
leaders 24/7. Now the challenge is to
see to it that everyone has the access to this great content training. The first creation is Entrusted Legacy. The second creation relies on your
willingness to make a difference. Please visit our website at www.entrustedlegacy.org and invest in our first creation today
through your donation. Together, we can
make a difference.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
A True Win-Win
We've heard it said that “people have the infinite capacity
to wait to get even.” Now when one first
reads a statement like that the words that come to mind are revenge,
retribution, payback, reprisal, and maybe even vengeance. We immediately think about a time that we
were wronged or belittled or underestimated and can conjure images not only of
our own humiliated self but the perpetrators of those feelings. In the book, Don’t Laugh at Me, the
authors state, “Don’t laugh at me, don’t call me names. Don’t gain your pleasure from my pain.”
In the movie and novel, Time To Kill, there is a
poignant scene in which the character prompts the jury to think about a heinous
crime and then flips the scene for the jury to consider how they would feel if
that story applied to someone they loved.
This notion of “flipping the context” works equally well with the quote
above, “people have the infinite capacity to wait to get even.” What if we put a positive spin on those
words? Did you have a role model? Did you have a mentor that helped you to
believe in the possibility of you? Do
you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that you are better off today because of
that relationship? Do you have the
“infinite capacity to wait to get even?”
At Entrusted Legacy we are working hard to “get even” with all our
mentors and role models. We are
committed to developing a critical mass by training and developing others to
reach even more youth than we can reach on our own.
Go to our website at www.entrustedlegacy.org
and exercise you capacity to “get even” with those who helped you by helping
others. Together the difference we can
make is powerful!
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Making a Difference
Are there any sweeter words to hear than, “I couldn't have
done it without you?” At the end of
every campaign season and throughout the Hollywood awards season, we hear the
powerful and the famous say those words.
But it isn't just those who hear those words from the powerful and
famous who want to know they have made a difference. We all desire to know that the world is a
better place because we have lived, loved, laughed, and learned. So how, when we are neither powerful nor famous
can we make this happen? We at Entrusted
Legacy believe that the combined efforts of caring and sincere people across
the nation can make a difference. There
is the notion of six degrees of separation which postulates that all of us are
linked through a network of connections that emanate around each of us. Mathematically, it brings forward the idea
that we each know 200 people and that those 200 know 200 who know 200 and so
on. By the time you work through the
exponential effects of this thinking, every one of us, no matter where we live
and play, is connected. As we see the
world figuratively shrinking we can be even more convinced that this is the
truth.
Entrusted Legacy believes that we can make a difference by
developing positive role models and mentors for youth. This requires that we get ready to “run this
race”. While practice and application of
knowledge are key, having that knowledge to begin with is often the weakest
link. Please join us at Entrusted Legacy
and help us to help those who work with youth in informal learning sessions
each and every day. Entrusted Legacy and
our affiliate have the means and materials to support the development of role
models and mentors 24/7 through web-based staff development.
Log on to our website at www.entrustedlegacy.org and invest in
the future today. We can do this work
together.
Location:
Kern, CA, USA
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