Thing #1 Learning my whole life long...

Life is long, so I might as well spend the time learning. I have grown up with the mantra, "never stop learning" My mom always encouraged me to see that when I get to the end of one learning experience, it was just the beginning of another. As a teacher and a current graduate student, it is easy to see how learning takes place your entire life. Therefore, I welcome the challenge of learning something new. Heck, I'm madly in love with my wife and I learn something new about her everyday. In viewing and contemplating the 7 1/2 Habits of EL square I find myself right in the middle of my childhood living room and momma and daddy steadily preaching to the three of us... "Where there is no vision, the people would parish" daddy would say. If you don't have an idea of where you're going, how are you ever going to know where to start is what I now tell my kids. "knowledge is power, But ain't nobody gonna give it to ya" Grandma would say. Those who have knowledge are those know where to find it... so where are you looking, is what I say to my kids. "God will never put more on you than you can bare," momma would always say. It takes the rain and the sun for life to grow, you just have to figure out what seeds you're going to plant during your storm, is what I say to my own. "Believe in yourself as I believe in you" my daddy would sing. Just because you had a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming, is what I speak. On and on it could go. I praise God for parents that instilled their own habits of learning in me. As a matter of fact, even as an adult, they are still turning my eyes to what I can learn from every situation, even when I talk with them on the phone. With that, the more I teach my own children, the more I end up learning. The beautiful thing about it all is, I'm having a blast doing it.