We teach without a plan

yellow post it note with a turret flag drawing
Circa 2014: My Castle turret sketch for a graphic designer.
yellow post it note with a turret flag drawing
Another version of the Castle turret. Created a bunch of these to help a graphic designer see what i was saying.

We teach without a plan.

How?

We teach with our behaviors.

Our behavioral habits demonstrate what we actually believe in.

The unspoken challenge (and unspoken opportunity) is to become self aware.

Self aware of our limited efforts to shed the unproductive things we do. The unproductive habits that develop over time because in the early stages, they brought us pleasure or eliminated pain. We welcomed that in those earlier days. And we will become what we repeatedly do, so those insidious mechanisms to create pleasure or to avoid pain are unconsciously who we are.

Everyone close to us knows it.

Our original plan to create pleasure or avoid pain are counter-productive to identifying our life’s priorities in a prioritized order.

A vicious cycle that quietly moves from generation to generation.

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By jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.