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It is essential, day by day,
to remain responsible
for our actions and decisions,
​accepting our faults
​without assigning blame


THE ERASER

8/31/2014

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Yesterday, I had a great conversation with Youla, a 3rd grade teacher from New York… We talked about her students, about their passion and their determination. She also  shared with me some of her secrets in teaching strategies; how she gets her kids excited about school and how she motivates the kids to try and keep trying without the fear of failure.
On the second day of school, she places an eraser on each one of the kids’ desks. When the kids arrive to class they always comment: “Miss, our mom already gave us an eraser…” with a puzzled face. 
“The eraser is for you to understand that it is ok to make mistakes, to commit errors, and that you are allowed to erase your answers; however, the purpose here is for you to really understand why you committed the error and for this understanding to click in your mind so you will always remember”
Love it!  
She is teaching her kids what I have been advocating in my writings: “Failures are not regrets but small disappointments that wake up the strength within us! Failures are the process of learning and improving!”
Youla is instructing her kids to take chances, to take risks knowing that they can fail and that it’s not a big deal.  
This training is what we call LIFE, and it is full of disappointments and setbacks but they do not last forever!
We all have the power within us to overcome anything that life throws our way.  We are wired to be resilient, to bounce back. Nothing can permanently stop us.
Understand and learn from your failures and mistakes; use your eraser, delete them and try again! 


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Joe
8/31/2014 03:11:04 pm

It's okay to make mistakes. It's not okay to laugh at people who make mistakes.

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RAMCHAND
9/14/2014 01:19:49 pm

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    Who I am today as a person is largely due to my failures!
    Failures are the speed bumps in life that matter!  They are not regrets but small disappointments that wake up the strength within us! Failures are the process of learning and improving!  Without failures we simply are at a status quo!  

    "success is built on many failures..." 

    Mauricio Fraga-Rosenfeld

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