Print“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”
Vince Lombardi
1913-1970, American Football Coach
Here here! When I was a new school teacher in the early 1990’s, I remember how much complaining used to go on in the faculty room. To be honest, I was shocked about it. There would always be a handful of teachers, who were just the embodiment of negative energy, and if you stayed around them long enough, you would hear complaining about everything that was wrong in the school, the town, the state, the world, etc. By the time you left the faculty room, you would be downright depressed. The most amazing thing was that year after year, the same teachers would complain about the same things, and yet not one of them had done a thing to make anything better. All they managed to do was bring down the energy of everyone around them.
After a while, I said, “If anyone would spend the same amount of time doing something to improve the situation as they did complaining about it, it would have been fixed a long time ago.” It is one thing to recognize a challenge; it is another thing to rise to the challenge and work to improve it, or solve it. As for me, my applause goes to the doer.
Oh, what did I do to make things better? I began to eat my lunch in my classroom, and listen to motivational and educational cassettes. I also maintained a healthy diet of books related to personal development, like Think and Grow Rich
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