Posts Tagged ‘failure’
Are you Faking It?
Are you doing what you love? Something that you've dreamed of doing? longed for? Or are you doing something close -... Read more...
Martin Grahame-Dunn: Photographer, Mentor & Trainer
"I believe in lifelong learning... I don't believe that process ever stops, to the day we die..." Read more...
Stop Making Sense… Suicide and Six Year Olds
Three weeks ago, I took a birthday cake into school to celebrate Hal’s birthday. Juan was a star – he’d made a birthday crown for Hal and his classmate, Yedra, who was also celebrating her birthday. We sang happy birthday in Spanish and English for both of them and they got to blow out candles –double cake all round! It was lovely. Juan ran the party in such a way that all the kids got cake, juice, party balloons and had fun in the class, then got to run it all off outside in the patio straight afterwards. As we were clearing up, he mentioned that in September Hal will be going up to the ‘primera’ – the first class in the big school, rather than infantil. I asked him what he would do then and he shrugged, smiled and said – be here, of course, teaching the little ones – it’s what I do! He seemed fine and to be genuinely enjoying himself. And when I picked Hal up from school later that day, Juan had collated all the birthday pictures the other kids had drawn for him into a little book. It was a wonderfully thoughtful memento to give a child of their key milestones in their childhood… Read more...
The Devil’s Workshop
Wow, what an Epilogue! The words used through Hill's last chapter are fantastic in themselves, enough to send your Imagination... Read more...
Goalcards… too simple for words
Amazingly, we have reached week 9 (The Sub-Conscious Mind) already in our reading through 'Think and Grow Rich". The pace... Read more...
