Chicago Education

To pay more money for education is like giving more whiskey to an alcoholic. If the City of Chicago, for example, paid each teacher a million dollars a year, the quality of education would not improve. Purchasing all the latest technology would not make the students learn more, better, or faster. It's about the PARENTS! Their involvement - and their enforcement of time devoted to study and school work to be done. In every culture this is true. Without exception - except the United States? Pay parents a million dollars for each of their kids getting straight A's under a revamped and tougher academic curriculum and you will see miracles.

Opportunity

You can go buy a door at Home Depot, hang it from a tree, sit on one side and wait for opportunity to knock - or become and make what draws people who are opportunity. 

Two Types of Good People

If gardeners behaved like many good people do, gardens would be mostly weeds. Thank God there's another type of good people.

Remove Doubt

remove doubt. it is a broad and tall object but never weighs more than a seed.

Childhood's Lesson

You can’t be ‘here’ and ‘there’ at the same time, you cannot be in the present and the past now, and you cannot travel this life of time and be somewhere far behind.

It isn’t about control; control is for weakness, and the past cannot be controlled. It is about the childlike autonomy to stand and fall, again and again, until you can stand without falling. It is the childlike power to take a step, and fall, and get up and do it again and again, until you can walk several steps, and be excited and laugh because you did it.

The childlike take the successes of life and move on. The only baggage in life required to carry is the good and intelligence and abilities you have made and taken forward from your past. This is freedom.

A Lesson at Hand

The young man lamented his condition and declared in exasperation, "I have nothing in life!"
The old man replied, "Close your hand! Hold hard."
The young man, jolted by the command, closed his hand.
"Harder."
The young man's knuckles and fingers began to turn red.
"Open!"
He slowly opened his hand.
"Look. You still have nothing. Don't use your life for nothing again."

welcome to the academy of applied failures

Lesson one. Repeat this after me. "I can't" means I will not do the things necessary to achieve the ends I claim I want.

mirroring values

We act out of our values and in so doing we act to them.

in the ring

Purpose, plan, practice, pluck; let fate follow.

constant among variables

My head may turn to other things, not my heart.

beyond the limits of cause

Physics has ˝causing˝, life ˝making˝. Applying ˝causing˝ to life activities compels a necessity that does not abide freedom that is the complement of choice and decision, the operational characteristics of life. ˝Cause˝ has no choice, ˝make˝ does.

possessing an instrument

Never confuse the possession of an instrument ~ tool, body, or mind ~ with the ability to use it. All instruments require mastery, and mastery is acquired by the application of one's life to it.

you make the difference

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction are completely different. Unhappiness is the sense you cannot alter events. Dissatisfaction is the prelude to doing just that.

join the future now

Regret is not meant to arrest time, but to join the future in correction now.

bookends

When you achieve your goal you achieve your decision.

do you believe in magic?

One may as well stand at the pantry door waiting for supper to come out to the table, as to wait for one's gifts to manifest without work.

"i can't"

"I can't" is something you do in the toillete.

master mystery solved

A master is a student at the root of his being.

the way, the only way

Those who do more toward a chosen end,
by unquenchable desire,
by intrepid exploration,
by undying persistence,
by the force of well-focused determination –
~ who invest more time,
~ and make more mistakes,
~ and seek more solutions,
~ and make more corrections than others,
ultimately achieve unparalleled accomplishment.
And running like a golden thread through all this is the final guarantor of success: patience.