Thinking
about the past few weeks of students highlighted in the newsletter for
receiving awards the theme for this month’s character initiative, and the long
stretch that March is during the school year; I can’t help but focus on the
importance of perseverance.
We should be
proud of all those students who have taken a risk and stepped into an unknown
experience because they wanted to and found success in the face of sacrifice
and struggle, but we should also be incredibly
proud of those students who do the same, fall short of accolades, and still
continue to push forward. Those
students are harder to spot because they are often silent in their
determination or feeling down because of their most recent failure. I know we all say that you cannot learn
without failing and that you need to fail before you can succeed…yeah…while that
is true...it’s a little easier to say when you aren’t the one failing.
Speaking of
failures and persevering through to success; check out this list of famous
individuals who did just that!
What I’m saying
to everyone is that if you:
·
are
trying or even thinking of trying something to be a better version of you, do
it
·
see
someone working hard and struggling to continue, don’t distract, but support
them.
Because in the end, we only find out
how good we can be by pushing until we fail…and then doing it all over again to
get a little farther.
We all need
to support our students who are giving it their all and motivate those to
achieve what they can…
Or as Kid
President says in this video pep talk; "We were made to be awesome!"
Now go out there and do what you were made for today. Not tomorrow, but today...get started.
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