Your Mindset Is the Matchstick – Strike It and Light It
johndabell There’s a spark in you. Maybe it’s dimmed. Maybe it’s buried. But it’s there – waiting. Your mindset is the matchstick. It holds the potential to ignite change, courage, and…
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Cancer And Metanoia
If there’s one thing that a cancer diagnosis brings about and that’s metanoia. Metanoia means to change your mind and have a new perspective on the world and/or yourself. Cancer…
Bitter Or Better? Time For A Vowel Transplant!
It’s amazing what one little letter will do to change its meaning. It’s amazing what this can do for your mindset as well. Take the word ‘bitter’ meaning ‘expressing a…
Liquid Optimism
Liquid optimism is a fluid mindset. Like water, this mindset will always find a way and shape itself to the circumstances encountered. A liquid optimist’s mindset allows its owner to…
Anchoring And Positive Thinking
When things get tough, what do you do? Mental anchors can weigh us down but we can also create anchors that free us from negative thinking. “Anchoring” is a powerful…
Yoga In Schools
“Yoga is the journey of the self, though the self, to the self” The Bhagavad Gita Many pupils are now being taught yoga as a way of helping support their…
The Rule of 3
It has often been said that 3 is the magic number and when it comes to survival then it’s certainly worth keeping in mind. The Rule of 3 states that…
16 Habits Of Mind
How children think matters and without particular dispositions or habits of mind, learning can be lumpy and bumpy. But these need to be taught and shared. According to Costa and…
The No-Complaining Challenge
Teachers spend a lot of time complaining and who can blame them, they have loads to complain about. But what about trying a day or longer without complaining. Would it…
Are You An Unstoppable Teacher?
Where do you fall on your school’s performance spectrum?