What’s Gone Well Today? ®
Here’s an easy way to recognize others… and in turn change how we look at our day, and our life.
When has someone made your day with the service they’ve given, or something they’ve said or done for you? Sharing these moments may inspire others. They lift the spirit!
On another note asking someone What’s Gone Well Today? ®, becomes life-changing. Conversations have a fresh, inspiring perspective.
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A friend phoned me with a water problem on her flat roof and said her regular yard man was out of the country. I asked around, drawing a number or blanks. Finally I came up with a neighbour but his phone was no longer in service. I phoned his wife’s cell who answered at work. She helped me get in touch with her husband.. and in the end he was ‘the man’.. attending to my friend later in the afternoon. My friend was touched by his thoroughness, and he seemed to appreciate the opportunity to be of service.
On the edge of learning. or is it Learning on the edge…
Driving home this morning we were talking about all the challenging teaching situations I had taken on in my career. The first three years saw me changing schools three times… working with high risk students in different cities. Over the course of the next 30 years I taught in about 17 different settings… Loni suggests I should write a book about it.
One of my highlights was winning a Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teacher Award for going where no one in the district had gone yet… with technology in the classroom. This happened about six months before we suddenly left Vancouver over the summer for another chapter in my teaching career, doing many things I had never done in a classroom or school up to that point.
In my last year at one challenging middle school for 5.5 years, I thought of an exit plan… I wondered how did I want to spend my remaining months, what would be my final marker before I left at end of the winter term? I got the whole school and the community involved in three talent shows. Definitely a career/ life highlight full of grace, joy, courage and connection.I had rarely seen these qualities at this school before.
It’s much more than a book about teaching, it’s a story of exploring, finding meaning, collaboration, connection, way beyond the curriculum or day-to-day routine or learning objectives or plans.
When we lived in Courtenay back in 2005 my favourite hair dresser was a neighbour’s daughter who we’ve known since she was about five years old. We’ve stayed in touch and now we both live in Victoria. When I need a cut, I text her and she comes over to our home.
A friend phoned to say that he is addicted to his laptop, and could he leave it with me, so he could change his life. Loved the trust, and the impulse for change.