Growth Mindset – Dweck is my Current Hero

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I remember Mrs Hanlon.  Mrs Hanlon was my Grade 2 teacher and she had very curly brown hair and she smoked.  (Gimme a break! Thats the description my Grade 2 brain has retained ok?!) Mrs Hanlon also loved to teach multiplication tables through repetition and competition.  This was not great for an introverted kid with a tendency towards worry.  When…

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Kids and Their Behaviour.

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This isn’t going to be pretty.  I’m not in a “pretty” writing mood!  Here are a few thoughts for you to percolate ….. 1. Behaviour is learned. (I won’t complicate that by addressing epigenetics!) 2. We are constantly learning. (Its called neuroplasticity. Its a thing) 3. If you don’t like something, change it. (Hell,what did I just write?!) In all…

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What Mindfulness Is Not.

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When some organisations ask me to do Mindfulness training for their staff, I often find they are actually saying “Michelle, we need to get more productivity out of our people.  They aren’t coping. Can you train them in mindfulness so they manage all the stress better and get more done?”  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA hilarious!  Thank you corporate world for taking a rather…

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The Power of “Perspective”

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I have Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Yeah,  I hadn’t heard of it either.  I only know about it because my mother was diagnosed a good 20 years ago, and because of its heritability, I was diagnosed too. Historically the ladies in our family haven’t done so well, but I think that is because medicine wasn’t advanced enough to track…

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