Make a Difference

“Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead Link to BLUE is NOT a Color: https://blueisnotacolor.funraise.org/ Join us at 7:30 PM EST 3/21/21

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."  -Albert Einstein I mentioned Craig Kemp's Ignite EdTech Podcast. Check it out here! - https://linktr.ee/mrkempnz

   "If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion." -Mia Hamm

"You can't fake passion." -Barbara Corcoran

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." -Oprah Winfrey I look at passion as the fuel that powers the engine to drive creativity and the innovation that comes from it.  

 “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one” ― Stella Adler Welcoming Ellen and Bailey to the podcast from #whatisschool PLN chat on Thursday nights. I hope you enjoy the show.

“Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their e...

 “Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.” ― Edward de Bono

Lets examine how creativity and innovation work when we are faced with an issue. Evan Robb joins the podcast with an exciting way he is impacting his students during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep them reading and growing on their journey.

Blue Missions is dedicated to improving public health by providing families with clean water and sanitary environments. Through sustainable, community-owned projects, our team works with locals to empower progress and transform rural communities for the better. The organization allows volunteers to travel with us to lend a hand in the construction of these projects in order to educate them about g...

Today's show takes a different approach from the traditional shows. This episode will feature an interview with a non-profit in the Cleveland area that really does Make a Difference. Please do share this show across your network and help spread the work that opportunities abound for those looking to make a difference. I hope you found this discussion informative and even answering ways that you wo...

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play” ― John Cleese

Think about this concept for a moment. Have you every had a job that allowed you to play? I am not talking in the off task type of way, but rather in a way that allows you to feel stimulated, engaged and alive? Today's quote by Linda Naiman invites us to examine this idea and she states:  “When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play an...

I hear a lot of my students exclaim that "They Can't" I often respond that it's not that they can't; but rather, they do not like the results of their effort. Today's quote by Chuck Jones lays out the real way to address the concept of I Can't and he states:  “Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.” Let's discuss the ap...

This month on make a difference, we are going to focus our studies upon creativity and innovation. As I said on the primer I shared with you last week, our society has had to become a lot more creative and innovative over the last 12 months in dealing with the Covid-19 Crisis. In doing so, we have the potential to continue to make a difference if we don't allow fear to reign in our skills.  T...

 “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” - Will Rogers

This week marks the end of January 2021 and the focus upon choice that we have begun this year. That does not mean we are going to stop thinking about choices, but rather take what we have learned though our reflections and begin to add them to the focus of our study in Feb. Today's quote bring this into focus and helps summarize what to take a way from this months journey .  “Your life...

Have the Maturity to Know When to Make a Choice. Start making choices.

We are here to make a difference. Today's quote lays out our purpose in a simple no none sense point for reflection: “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” Denis Waitley

How do you define creativity? Our second term for February will be Innovation. I really believe that both of these terms have taken on a new meaning and level of intensity over the last 12 months. We as a society have had to become much more innovative and creative on how we go about our daily lives; be it getting the basics to our home or becoming creative in the manner we handle our workplace, a...

Today's quote hails from someone I have studied a lot. He is a household name and created one of the moment dominant companies in the world today.  He states:  “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” 

Sometimes it can be hard to pick a spot to start because we start to choose what is most important in the moment. We can be faced with an emergency that is not part of our plan that can knock us off course; but must be addressed. Run to the fire and fight it with all the tools at your disposal to put it out quickly.

“The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.” — Neal Boortz

“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of  your freedom to choose .” — Thornton Wilder Today's quote helps us remember that we are always free to choose and should celebrate the ability to make a choice. 

 “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.”