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Our mindsets direct the experience of our lives toward happiness or misery.  Henry Ford wisely noted:  “Whether you think you can or  think you can’t  – you’re right.” Our state of mind has a huge impact on how we experience life.  We can choose one way of thinking – “I can” –  and the result is that we work at a problem until we solve it because we believe we can. Or we can choose “I don’t think I can” and the result is that we stop trying because . . . “What’s the use?” We don’t believe we can. In his infinite wisdom, Buddha said, “What we think, we are.”   What we think, we feel – stress or joy.  What we think, we

Andy is a trainer and board member of Ho’ala Foundation for Education dba Awakening Wisdom. His life is a reflection of Awakening Wisdom’s “why” as you will see from this article he wrote.  The Power Of Belief “I know I mean something in this world now.” Twenty years ago, a group of inner-city students I worked with introduced me to “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” by Tupac Shakur. It is a collection of poetry that fits well alongside my humble library of books focused on the human condition – the sorrows and the joys of our journeys.  Reading the quote above brought me back to those students as I witnessed another rose struggling to break through, reaching for the sun.  We had just wrapped up

This  title is a somewhat unusual way of thinking of our roles as educators and as parents in raising our children, our students. Every organization has a purpose and vision – their North Star – toward which they labor.   A family, a classroom, a school are all organizations and, like a business or a nonprofit,  it helps to be clear about its North Star.   What kind of human being do we want our children to be when they are adults?   What kind of human being do we want our students to be when they leave our school? What kind of employee will serve our global family? My daughter asked me when she was 9 years old, “Mom, what do you want me to be?”