About to head to bed again, hoping to collect my thoughts for the next day, again.
Then, I realized if I were to do that, again, I would be falling into the same rut, again.

I'm here trying to push myself on a consistent basis.


Recapping for Friday, I am thankful that I had a chance to bond with Maria and Alex.  I learned there are five types of love: touch, gifts, words of affirmation, time, service.  I am thankful that today went by very smoothly, I was focusing on my classroom nothing else.

Having sleep does wonders, I feel recharged and ready to start another beautiful day.  I am appreciative that I am here at Coffee Bean checking out the hazy sunrise while listening to one of the soundtracks for Matilda.  Life is good. I have to thank God for blessing me with another wonderful day, another day to learn from my experiences and become a better individual.


What would make me really, really, really, really happy is to be myself, the trustworthy, loyal, helpful, courteous, kind individual who is confident, passionate, and positive.

Every action has a consequence.

When dealing with people, every action has a consequence.  The consequence may be positive or it may be negative.  Everything happens for a reason, yesterday's experience was a great learning experience.  The lesson learned was not to dwell on the negative or to be at a negative state of mind since negative tends to cloud any rationale judgements.  This experience opened another experience, re-building a rapport with my mom.  I came to realize I had to confront my mom about issues that lingered in the past.  My mom provided many insightful lessons, all of which was in Chinese but another positive experience aside from reconnecting with my mom was brushing up on my Chinese.


Today is a bright new day, a new start to a new beginning.  The journey to becoming the positive man has begun.  I am a positive man.

Special thanks to God for giving me life, providing me life experiences that make a stronger person. Thank you for blessing me the opportunity to work, to learn, to grow.

Here at Starbucks, I am going to start off my day with positive mantras.
I really, really, really, really want to be the social, positive, confident Eagle Scout who is straight forward and non-reactive.

Today's Life Lessons

Today, I learned many valuable lessons: how to plan for math but most importantly in the process of learning a life lesson, I lost a friend.

Today's lesson, I need to be the Eagle Scout that I am. I need to remember an Eagle Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.   It seems lately, I have forgotten the way of the Eagle, the way I was raised.

Today's lesson, I learned that I need to be upfront immediately, I should not wait until hours afterwards to discuss the problem.  It scares me when I have to confront my problems, I just have to remember that I have to get out of my confront zone and strive through it. Experiencing what I experienced will make me a stronger person.


Today's lesson, I learned I need to be courteous and kind to everyone, especially my friends.  Under no circumstances, should I be the undesired, rude asshole. I need to be mindful of my tone and body language.  Most importantly, I need to provide clarification rather than responding to one worded responses.  I am a man, not some caveman.

With that said and done, from this point on, I am going to make a conscious effort
1. to follow through with all my engagements and appointments (this week, I need to email Chandra an updated schedule, bake sale, plan for science, setting up parent conferences, inputting the iep progress)
2. continue to be the way of the Eagle, especially being courteous and kind.  I need to be mindful of everyone, I should not say things that will harm anyone or in my case, losing a friendship.
3. what happened in the past, happened in the past. There is no sense in dwelling over it.

A process I am looking forward to, I need to become the better person I desired.

As a behavioral therapist, I had the opportunity to work with a 19 year-old child who does not know how to express himself when he is angry, tired, or asking for assistance.  Providing positive reinforcement and video modeling, the child now knows what to do when he is tired and angry. When he is tired, he would take a short break by washing his face and partake in some exercises. When he gets upset, he now knows that he needs to uncross his arms, open his eyes, take 10 deep breaths, count to 10, and talk to someone how he is feeling and why is he feeling this way.  He also knows to document his feelings on a feeling journal.

An example of student’s academic growth was when I was working with a fifth grader who was an emergent reader and was not eager to learn. Through environmental print, word games, repeated readings, Language Experience Approach, and reading to younger students, the child was eager to learn and was able to identify words on his own.

Inspiring

While waiting in the waiting room for my sister to conduct her endoscopy, CNN had a segment on the only Afghan women's soccer team and their struggles they've overcame. Tell me about something you are passionate about, something against all odds, you continued to pursue.

Act 1, scene 1. Take 1

 

Hola Seniorita,

How are you feeling?
Until you are better, I will defer the cost of $5 for the pictures and $50.99 for shipping and handling. :p
Word on the street is that virtual chicken soup cures migraines.  :)

Honestly, the rest of the vacation was a blur. Funny thing was that the tour group rode the bus from Vancouver to Seattle, US customs had to search all of our bags, requesting the 60 year old driver to remove all those bags himself. After X-raying our bags, one of the guys from the bus was detained for about an hour causing the rest of us to barely make it to the airport. Although I remained calm as everyone on the bus was feeling antsy,  it felt like the scene from Home Alone 2 where they were rushing to the airport. Have you had any experiences where your life seemed like a scene from a movie?

By the way, how was the remaining of your trip?

Wishing you a speedy recovery,
Phil