Mary Robinson Reynolds' Column This Week
Top 7 Reasons we don't acknowledge one another...
Excerpt from Make A Difference with the Power of Acknowledgment UTRAIN® Program for Education
1. Jealousy and envy; fear of being seen as giving insincere flattery, fake.
2. Speechless; as in "Ah, don't know what to say," can't find the words.
3. I'll do it tomorrow; tomorrow never comes.
4. That person is so great, they don't need it, or it'll give them a big (or bigger) head.
5. If you do it too much, it will lose its impact/importance.
6. Fear of being rejected; blown off. Feeling vulnerable.
7. Don't belong, so why bother.
Error Thinking: Scarcity Mentality is the fear based, negative belief that "more for you" means "less for me." The term, "Zero-Sum" means that "there's not enough pie for everyone." And so we think that by withholding Acknowledgment we are somehow preserving something for ourselves! This makes no practical sense.
With Make A Positive Difference WEEK the entire school is going to learn how to Successfully Reach Out to Acknowledge others to Make A Difference, because we JUST DON'T KNOW whose life we may be saving or making a difference in.
The life we may be saving may be someone we are very close to, someone we hardly know, a stranger, or even our own!
This is NOT just a slogan; this week is about being "Life Changers!"
Every day of the week has been fully designed for your faculty with activities and skills that every one can go out and practice to Make A Difference through the personal power of Acknowledging others.
PLAN NOW to get Make A Positive Difference WEEK Program on your school's agenda for the very first part of this new year and you WILL see a calming effect over the entire population.
Students who learn to acknowledge others will feel good about themselves. When we teach them "how" to safely and effectively become more authentic through learning how to genuinely acknowledge others during a WEEK long experiment in human kindness ... they WILL do outstanding when it comes to being able to relax and "think" when taking their tests. Why?
Because the LIGHT IS ON and somebody is in there doing their work!
Reaching out to make a difference in education 2013 ...
Mary Robinson Reynolds, M.S.
Author & Founder of Heart Productions & Publishing
makeadifference.com/Acknowledgment
PS ... If you haven't already watched my newest Video Training Series for Educators, I hope you will grab a cup of tea and come join me in discovering just how DO-able this program is for your school. Click Here and watch the Education Video and then click the UTRAIN™ Program for Education graphic below the video.
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