With five days remaining in the first quarter of the 2018-2019 school year, let me begin with something very real: Thank You! Thank you for leaping into a new year of learning and providing an amazing start for adults and students alike. I am humbled to work alongside some amazing professionals! You all make me want to be better every day.
We hear the phrase A LOT…the struggle is real. And make no mistake about it, this is very true. Each of us carries something (or many things) that weigh us down beyond description. That’s why culture and family are so, so important. We need to be able to count on people. We spend over 1200 hours together through the course of a school year. I came across this in my reading and it’s been lingering in my head ever since:
In our significant relationships, in the workplace, and in our conversations with ourselves, we’d like to tell the truth. We’d like to be able to successfully tackle the topic that's keeping us stuck or at odds with on another, but the task is often too hard and we don’t know how to avoid the all-too-familiar outcome of talks gone south. Besides, we’ve learned to live with it. Why wreck another meeting with our colleagues, or another weekend with our life partner, trying to resolve the tough issues or answer the big questions? We’re tired and just want peace in the land.
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