Month: August 2023
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Naps with God
The kindergarteners in the classroom where my wife substitutes have a rest time every afternoon. For about thirty minutes, it’s lights out and everyone lies down on their blanket. Some sleep and some don’t, but it’s a quiet time for everyone. This past Tuesday, when the lights came back on, one little guy sat up…
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The Power of Perspective
I love greeting students at my elementary school when they get dropped off in the morning. We exchange positive affirmations like, “Have an amazing day!” or my favorite, “It’s a great day at Freedom Elementary!” Earlier this week, I gave my “It’s a great day…” pitch to a fourth grader, who stopped in his tracks.…
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One Thing I’ve Learned About Blogging
Imagine for a moment you’re at a bloggers convention and you step into a hotel elevator. Inside, you find three of the biggest movers and shakers in your blogging niche. I mean, these guys (or gals) are major social media influencers! Just as you push the button for floor 23, one of them says to…
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Is the Sky Really Falling?
In the early 1990’s, social psychologist Roy Baumeister began exploring the negativity bias–the widely accepted belief that bad has a stronger impact on people than good. His team conducted extensive research, hoping to find situations where a single positive circumstance was actually stronger than a negative one. They couldn’t find any. In fact, Baumeister and…
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