I have speaking to students lately of the importance of creating a personal "Dream Team" of individuals that influence your thinking and who's behaviors you would seek to emulate.
From Albert Einstein to my grandfather, these individuals have given me insight, creative energy, and clarity. My "Dream Team" serves to help me be the best teacher, mother, friend, and learner that I can be.
This weekend, my "Dream Team" served a new found purpose; to help me think and behave my way out of conflict and pain. I have always believed that faith and positive thinking are the most powerful forces in this universe, but during dark moments even I struggle to direct my thoughts in positive and proper ways.
Thank goodness, I have an amazing dream team to rely on. A network of friends, family, and amazing individuals , too numerous to mention, who remind me of what is most important. I found my self looking at a difficult situation through "their eyes" and letting their voices guide my thinking:
- What questions would Albert ask, if he were posed with the same problem?
- How would Drew imagine a new opportunity?
- Steve would see a way to use this, still to offer advice to another- making this a GTY project for sure?
- Rosa would say, we find strength only in things you are willing learn from - what can you learn?
- And, Heather, Jocelyn, and Shannon would remind me to RUN!
Outward circumstances or conditions do not determine what our lives become nearly as much as the thoughts that dominate our minds and the people we surround ourselves with. I am truly blessed in good times and in bad, to have amazing, brilliant and wonderful people for whom I could not make it without.
As you raise your mind above the conflicts you face, think about your dream team; let them know they matter and how. If you do not have one, create on immediately, so when your thoughts are in confusion or you feel depressed, you live in an unreal world, you cannot see your way out, they will always remind you that you are not alone.
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