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Vicki Davis
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While a small part of our life is happenstance - most of where we stand in life happens because of where we stand with our actions and habits.
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Your wallet, wastebasket, and waistline tell more about your daily habits than you may wish to reveal.
Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher
Change your habits, change your life.
Image: Black hole tearing apart a star.
This computer-simulated image from NASA recreates an actual event studied with help from NASA’s orbiting Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on the summit of Haleakala in Hawaii. It took place about 2.7 billion light years from Earth in a galaxy known as PS1-10jh.
A flare in ultraviolet and optical light revealed gas falling into the black hole as well as helium-rich gas that was expelled from the system. When the star is torn apart, some of the material falls into the black hole, while the rest is ejected at high speeds. The flare and its properties provide a signature of this scenario and give unprecedented details about the stellar victim.
Black hole ripping up a star. Fascinating and very sad in a way. I see the black hole in people’s lives. There are things that completely suck up a star, literally - drugs, bad habits, wasteful spending, foolish friends and yet, somehow more people may be saddened by this picture than that of a life wasted. I am saving this pic.
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The Home Routines app is a phenomenal productivity app for those who focus on habits.
The book, the Power of Habit, says that 95% of what we accomplish in our lives is due to habits. Now, I use homeroutines for even my school routines. I have a morning and evening routine each day, but also different routines for the first 10 minutes of my planning period and for Saturdays. Although Called home routines, it is a powerful app for business too. If you have an ipad and an iPhone it syncs. $3.99
(via App Store - HomeRoutines)
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Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person engaging in self destructive behavior is to be caught early on. Barnie Fife was right when he said, “Nip it. Nip it in the bud!” How much better our world would be if we teachers worked to “nip it.” I can guarantee that Bernie Madoff cheated in a small way before he stole millions. You can’t nip it, however, if you have administrators who brush off the bud of self destruction as unimportant. There are no unimportant self destructive behaviors- white lies if untempered always grow into big, black gangrenous sores. People who can’t show up to work on time were tardy to school. People who cheat on their taxes my have started by cheating on a test. We can’t turn a blind eye. Sometimes the best thing we can do is address a problem, even if we will end up offering forgiveness. If a child knows you know and you don’t address something, you are sending a message that it is ok to keep doing it. By your silence you become an accomplice. Do the world a favor. Nip it. Nip it now.
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» The Habits That Crush Us :zenhabits
Replace bad habits with good. Sounds simple. Then why dont we do it? “The old habits of coping didn’t build up overnight, and they won’t go away overnight either. We built them up through years of repetition, and the only way to change them is also years of repetition.”
