I love Quotes!
Yes I do and I use them all the time with my classes.
I find that quotes are a wonderful way to start a topic in personal development as they usually get the creative thinking started and open up the discussions in the classroom.
Lets take for example the subject of discipline. This is a skill that we talk about as being essential towards achieving the grades and the goals we have set in our course. An earlier article I wrote talked about the small steps of discipline we need to do on a daily basis to move us towards these goals.
To start this topic I could use the following quote
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."
- Jim Rohn
It is very interesting to use this quote as it shows an unbalance in the end result with whatever route you take. The disciplined route is far less painful than the non disciplined route which could result in failure.
We can use this analogy with past exams. Was there any subject that you just failed and if you had just disciplined yourself to do that little bit of work you may have just passed.
Lets look at this from another angle …our diet.
In class last week we were talking about our diets and I was listening to many of the class tell me about the amount of salt they take with each meal. They sit down at the table and shake salt all over their food before they even taste it. Now unless all of us have been living under a rock we should know the problems with too much salt…heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke etc and in the supermarkets the processed food that is available already has a high level of salt in them to increase storage life and make them taste better.
When we discussed this issue I was assured by the students that it would just not be possible to reduce the salt they put on their food as it would just not taste the same.
Well not initially I informed them…. but it only takes a few weeks for your taste buds to adjust ( teacher has an answer for everything)
So lets look at me. (for a change)
I have been taking sweeteners in my coffee for some time, I do not know when or why I started but I do know that it is something I should not do. So last week I stopped.
Did my coffee taste the same?.......No…..but I kept having my normal daily coffee and I persevered with the no sweeteners.
Viola ……today 10 days later I did not even notice the taste….just a nice cup of coffee.
So back to the salt.
Just like the quote says we can go through the temporary pain of discipline in adjusting our tastebuds to a new taste of less salt or we can not discipline ourselves to make that change and take the risk of possible effects on our health later and regret we never made the changes.
The choice is ours …..simple
Remember:
" Action is the foundational key to all success."
- Pablo Picasso
If you are like me and enjoy quotes then I have found a book of "300 top quotes" and placed it on my site here.
…enjoy!