EDUCATION, TEACHING & TRAINING

EDUCATION, TEACHING & TRAINING

On a flight to Florida, I was preparing my notes for one of the parent-education seminars I conduct as an educational psychologist. The elderly woman sitting next to me told me that she was returning to Miami after having spent two weeks visiting her six children, 18 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren in Boston. Then she inquired what I did for a living.

I told her, fully expecting her to question me for free professional advice.

Instead she sat back, picked up a magazine and said, "If there's anything you want to know, just ask me."

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A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people going into the house.
Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house.

The Physicist says: "The measurement wasn't accurate." The Biologist concludes:
"They have reproduced." The Mathematician says: "Now the house will be empty again, if another person enters the house."

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A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill.
In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?"
Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me
do this." He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up. He then asked,
"Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.

"Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the
ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter
what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20."

"Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and ground into the
dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.
We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or
what will happen, you will never lose your value: dirty or clean,
crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or whom we know, but by
WHO WE ARE. You are special - Don't ever forget it. Count your
Blessings, not your problems."

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