by libraryleader | Feb 6, 2018 | Adversity, Discouraged, Discouragement, Failure, Learn, Mistake, Mistakes, Trouble
Troubles are opportunities to grow, to make us better, not bitter. Rightly used, we can learn from them not to repeat our own mistakes.
by libraryleader | Oct 1, 2017 | Help, Helpful, Lead, Leader, Leaders, Leadership, Problem, Solution, Solutions, Trouble
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
by libraryleader | Sep 17, 2017 | Adversity, Cheerful, Courage, Difficult, Happiness, Happy, Honest, Joy, Trouble, Truth
The Little House books are stories of long ago. The way we live and your schools are much different now, so many changes have made living and learning easier. But the real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of...
by libraryleader | Jul 30, 2017 | Adversity, Character, Courage, Hard, Peace, Time, Triumph, Trouble, Worry
The odds are very good that worrying is a waste of time. And besides, worrying won’t change what happens anyway, will it?
by libraryleader | Dec 11, 2016 | Difficult, Hard, Pain, Trouble
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
by libraryleader | Sep 30, 2016 | Serve, Service, Trouble, Unkind
The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.
