Friends, how do you become one of those best teachers? Well, I bet most of you reading here have taken education seriously?
If you read my blogs you know I took a different path, and my path ran up-hill. Why I took on a life of entrepreneurism, only God knows.
From selling Newsday subscription's at age 12, winning those trips to Coney Island, Brooklyn Dodger,
New York Yankee and Giants games, was forming my ' Big Adventure' a Pee Wee herman movie.
My 10,000 hours of practice started early. Research by Malcolm Gladwell ( The Outliers ), it's a very interesting read.
Fast Forward to 1958, the day the music died, three legends of early Rock N Roll, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, left us in a plane crash. The day was special I was 16, they threw me out of school for the last time.
So what do you do when you graduate from the class clown, to hangin out? Now I was real cool, no job, no money and no education, you get lucky! I met Bob Riley. Bob changed my life, he taught me the landscaping business.
One of the theme's with YSTA is being a mentor, Bob Riley did exactly that, I owe everything to Bob.
But of course my 'Big Adventure' was just beginning.
It's now I WANT TO TELL THE WORLD!
When I look back to 2003, and that flashback, that 16 year old boy who helped me realize why I had become a Toastmaster.
Coach John Wooden said "Don't let what you can't do stop you from what you can do".
We can all strive to be a better teacher, a better mentor, be like John Wooden!
' The Big Show' speech contest will open on Facebook Dec. 1st.
See all the rules and how to enter: http://goo.gl/kYtLkR .
The whole idea here is to reach out, find young speakers and those who don't even know yet they can!
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
~Mother Teresa
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