Mojo Monday
If you aren’t familiar with the idea behind Mojo Monday, it’s a writing prompt to get your creativity flowing. Feel free to write about it on your blogs, or simply leave a comment below. Write as much or as little as you wish.
Looking forward to reading your contributions!
I would teach about emotional intelligence. So much of our education is focused on IQ, but getting farther in life has much to do with someone’s EQ. If one can’t get along with others, even if he/she is brilliant, that person will not get very far in the workplace, families, and other relationship-dependent environments.
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Couldn’t have said it better – what a great thought…
Emotional Intelligence is so important, even beyond health/cancer. Thank you.
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Poetry! 🙂
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Jackie and Jan, I love both your responses!
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Geez Louise that is a good question. I always dreamt of teaching my daughter some valuable life savvy ideas, but now I don’t know. I have to go and think about it. ~Catherine
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Well if it helps, you are teaching me how to live with grace and dignity with a life-threatening illness x
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I’d teach people decision-making skills, so they have better self-esteem and confidence; know and/or acknowledge the difference between wants and needs, and make better choices as they go through life.
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I would teach diplomacy. the nuances of looking beyond either/or, good/bad, right/wrong, and other opposites often escape us because we sometimes aren’t inclined to truly examine situations from multiple angles and miss out on finding compromise in solving problems. many of the issues that plague us end up being resolved when we can find the middle of the road; sounds easy, but at times we can’t seem to escape being stuck either to the far left or far right of a problem (and I am not referring to politics!) because we want a quick, decisive answer.
thanks for posing this very good question, Marie!
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I would like to be a help to surviving France for American women. I meet them from time to time and I’ve seen more than a few who are struggling here. Some of it is language, some of it is culture, most of it is isolation, depression, grief. Far from their families and friends, trying desperately to find work commensurate with their ambitions (not always possible), discovering that they are migrants with little power relative to their native husbands and having to deal with all the bureaucracy and local citizens’ feelings about foreigners. And this is true even if one comes from a developed country. These women don’t get much sympathy from folks back in the US (How can you possibly be unhappy? You’re living in France!) And that’s not fair because integration/assimilation is tough and just might be harder in France for reasons I’ve written about. Takes time to find your feet (took me, I’d say, between 5 and 10 years.) So, when I see one of my compatriotes who is not doing well here I want to do something to help. Surely there is something in my experience that I could haul out and pass on….
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Brilliant question – I think I would want to teach how not to be bored! I often think that being bored is not about what there is “to do” but rather a broader question about how you approach life in general. I would love to teach how to observe the tiny details such as the behaviour of bees or the intricacy of a hibiscus flower. I would love to teach, or enable to learn, how to find fascination in the seemingly mundane and how to never tire of our surroundings. I should also teach myself to understand that our world is a very different place these days with technology and the internet!
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People, especially children, saying, “I’m bored” drives me nuts. As you say, there are so many interesting things about which to think about and learn. Devastated as I am about my husband’s illness, it is still a very interesting process.
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Philippa what a beautiful reply and now that I think about it you are already teaching us those things through the stories and images you share on your wonderful blog!
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I would go back to teaching music to children. I did this for forty years and loved most every minute of it.
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Something I didn’t know about you Lois – you were a music teacher – how wonderful 🙂
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Like much of my life – I fell into it as an accidental career. I taught our own children because we couldn’t afford lessons. Neighbor kids joined in. Subsequently I took a number of music and pedagogy classes and for much of my musical career (forty years), I taught between 50 and 65 students a week.
When I got breast cancer, I accidentally became an author after writing a number of poems and my oncologist insisting that I write a book. Then I accidentally began speaking locally which stretched into over 600 talks in all 50 United States, Canada, and England.
I haven’t planned much of my life. It just happened.
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There’s a wonderful lesson in there Lois 🙂
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Hi Marie, I took your writing challenge. It’s a great prompt, and I am going to try more of these Mojo Mondays posts. Here’s the link to my post on this topic: http://bethgainer.com/teachinglifelessons/
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Yay Beth! Looking forward to reading your post.
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Hi Marie,
If I had to pick one thing it would be compassion, self-compassion and compassion for others.
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Thanks everyone, I love your responses and now that I think about it, we all have the opportunity to teach through our interactions online and in real life. We can model the qualities we would like to impart to others.
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