Education is about getting a degree, not learning. Learning is about understanding more about yourself and your world. Why are you going to school? ‘To get a degree’ most college kids will answer, I did. Does having gone to school make me any smarter than someone who didn’t? No. Absolutely not, and I can point [...]
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Education Is Not Learning
Posted in Growth, tagged learning on January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Future vs. Now – A Fight to YOUR Death
Posted in Growth, tagged future, Life, living, today on December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. – Marcus Aurelius
We must find a balance between living for the future, and living for today.
Living for today.
Go out. Have fun. Spend your hard earned money. Do what makes you laugh and what you like to do. You might die tomorrow, [...]
Attitude: The Elevator of Success
Posted in Growth, tagged attitude on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You need to have attitude. ‘I don’t think I can’ means you can’t. ‘I think I can’ puts you in the game. Don’t ever count yourself out. You want a free ticket to the front of the line? Make your attitude your ally and you put yourself on a whole other level.
Natural Rhythms – Ups and Downs
Posted in Growth, tagged Life, Struggle, tough times on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I feel a bit down. I feel as if everyone is messing with me. Everyone is testing me, to see how I react. It’s frustrating. Maybe it’s one of life’s tests. No one can be up all the time. It’s impossible no matter how hard I try. What do we do when life pushes us [...]
Small Steps = Giant Leaps
Posted in Growth, tagged Growth on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every once in a while my inbox will get backed up. If I go on a vacation, or just slack off for a week, when I come back, it’s a big old stack. I might try to avoid it for a while; it always appears like there is so much to do. Eventually though I [...]
Self Growth, NOT Self Improvement
Posted in Growth, tagged Growth, Life, Self on April 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Nate? Why self growth? Why not say self improvement? When I finally decided on a theme I am passionate about, self improvement, and I was looking to name the blog accordingly, I couldn’t use self improvement. Improvement just seems the wrong concept. Let’s go to the dictionary:
Improvement
1. an act of improving or [...]
