I can learn to think outside the box by 1st realizing what it is that has brought me to the way I think. Examining my life to find out how I got to the place I am. I have to be honest with myself in my thinking. That is the only way I’ll able to know what assumptions of myself I am making that I’m not aware of. Once I sort through my life I can see that I am product of what someone said or thought about me.
Realizing that it’s all invented helps me shift my world and my thoughts about the world and others, it’s not as easy as just changing my thought process, it takes work daily. Some use different methods of positive thinking. However by understanding that it’s all invented and that those people who helped shape my life gave me what they had, can give me quicker results. The reason for this is; forgiving others breaks a cycle of repeating the same mess-ups.
I was raised with grades and as a teacher I have to give grades as a measurement. Grades don’t tell the whole story. Often in my career I have seen great improvement in my students from where they started to where they ended, but not enough for the system of measurements in grades.
My thoughts of career, family and myself are a reflection of the measurement world. What I drive, the house and neighborhood I live in are all apart of what I measure as good or right. The values I have for life and others are all a reflection of what I have been taught to measure as right. We live in a world of possibility and should think outside the box for new and better ways of doing things, however we should never do any thing that would infringe on the rights and safety of others.
By giving others and myself an A I won’t measure how things stack up to my standards. Like Michael Angelo’s art I am in the rough trying to become the best I can be.
I discover the beauty in myself by realizing the truth I see in myself. Answering that question, I began reinventing myself and looking at other choices.
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