Things I learned in 2019:
▪️True love isn't found, it's built. Like wine you must age the understanding and trust.
▪️The opportunists' advantage is their wisdom in knowing that achievement and change can occur simultaneously.
▪️Being brave amongst the scared isn't courage, admitting to feeling afraid amongst the proud is.
▪️ Be friends with the people that put the 'i' in kind and the 'with' in withstanding.
▪️Authenticity is messy. Waking up and being you isn't givng a good ol' middle finger to the world. Instead its a process of constantly acknowledging, reflecting and refining your reaction to fears, insecurities, expectations and downfalls. It's not the type of mess that is made by someone lazy but the type of mess that is left after the creation of something.
▪️Knowing your students and knowing how your students learn are totally different journeys. These are actually exclusive but yet you can't master one without the other.
▪️The act of differentiating within a lesson cannot be the ticking of a box. An enormous expectation coupled with an entirely weak understanding of differentiation, might be the downfall of education.
▪️Sympathy is not empowerment but the display of superiority. If you're telling someone to 'relax' or 'calm down' when they are neither calm nor relaxed, you may as well make them feed you peeled grapes in their time of grief.
▪️Ladies, when you mock women's wrinkles or body fat due to age, you certainly highlight how young you look in comparison. But sadly, you also make evident how underdeveloped your maturity is. Embrace aging.
▪️Why DON'T we celebrate our first wrinkle like we do our first tooth. Are they both not equally relevant to our inexorable evolution?
▪️You can't influence when you carry offense. You also can't be influential over anything you don't truly love. Even the impressionable don't respond to hate.
▪️Bravery isn't stepping up for a battle that bears great reward but into one that bears great ridicule
▪️It's wonderful to not be sorry for who you are. But don't confuse that with being sorry for what you have done. Humility and pride masquerade as each other.
