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Does anyone have any lessons/activities that focus on the 7 Habits circle of influence?
My seniors need to learn to change things and not just complain about them.
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@lovelikesummer I can look through my materials tomorrow to see what I have!
Hollywood Strength
Over the past year and a half of my life, I’ve dealt with some of the most difficult struggles of my life thus far. I’ve beaten myself up endlessly for everything. I’ve questioned, accepted, only to start questioning myself again. Ad nauseum. I’ve hated myself for pretty much every single thing I could possibly hate myself for.
Most of all, I have doubted my strength.
A strong person would have done this and this and that and that. So-and-so handled it this way. So-and-so handled it that way.
An endless internal barrage of the road not taken.
Two months into therapy, something I should have done a long time ago, I’ve finally been able to sit back as much as I can at the moment and reflect on that word.
And I learned strength is not the same thing for everyone. Not the same decision. Not the same reaction. Not the same thought or idea. Not the same time or the same place. Not the same words.
Because we are not the same. Without getting into schmoopy “we are all unique snowflakes” territory, strength looks different in every situation for each person because each second of our lives have shaped what strength looks like for us. We’re conditioned to look around us, to see what others do as examples of how to live. We are bombarded with expectations everywhere, especially for us women.
In a particularly intense session, I asked my therapist how I could dare consider myself a strong woman if I did x-y-z.
“That’s Hollywood strength. That’s what you see in the movies. In real life, it’s not that clear cut,” she said.
That was a moment when the skies cleared a bit for me. I thought back to times in the past when I did things because they looked strong, but the conviction wasn’t there. I thought of times when I caved to emotions or my core without giving a damn about how it looked, and it turned out okay. Not to say that there isn’t truth to manufactured “strong woman” tropes, but it’s too fucking limiting. It’s not a one-size-fits-all concept.
Right around the same time, the Harvey Weinstein bombshells broke. Women came forward with nerves of steel while many were criticized for not being strong enough to come forward earlier. There was no winning for them. No show of strength from women was or is ever good enough.
All of this swirling in my head, I realized that anything I do, anything any woman does, is unfairly subject to hypercriticism, but it doesn’t change the fact that it takes strength to do them. I was holding myself to an impossible standard, a standard set by a society largely out to narrow my view of who I am to sell me ideas on who I should be.
Because strength is in everything.
Strength is speaking up. Strength is keeping it in until you’re ready to speak.
Strength is moving forward. Strength is staying still for a while to breathe.
Strength is leaving & never looking back. Strength is staying & looking forward.
Strength is raising your voice. Strength is effectual silence.
Strength is holding tight. Strength is knowing when to let go.
Strength is weeping. Strength is stoicism.
Strength is independence. Strength is knowing when you need a hand.
Strength is thinking about others. Strength is thinking about yourself.
Strength can be in all things.
I am strong.
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📣📣📣 this is a public service announcement for those following the grenfell tower story abroad 📣📣📣
a lot of the foreign press seems to ignore the main tenents of the story so if you may here is a brief breakdown of why it’s shaping up to be a defining national moment in the uk:
***the housing tower is located in north kensington. it is social housing for poor and working class londoners of which a huge number are BME. the borough of kensington and chelsea is the richest in london and marked by devastating inequality and gentrification that some poorer residents describe as social cleansing. non-luxury housing in london is generally a huge issue that has gone unaddressed for decades now, and privatisation of social housing provision has meant that profit motive and cost cutting have been strongly featured in poor people’s housing. race, housing and poverty are also tightly linked in london; this was a poor and ethnically diverse community as you can see if you watch videos from the scene. first victims we knew that sadly perished were a black british female photographer and her mum, and and a syrian refugee.
***the council is tory and they have done less and less for the housing of its poorer residents and more to accommodate wealthy people. for example, the council is sitting on 300 million in cash reserves yet somehow didn’t find cash to install basic fire sprinklers that the residents asked for? not only that but the 8 billion refurbishment that included the now notorious cladding was partly done for insulation but partly also to make the ugly 1970s council estate look more aesthetically pleasing for the swanky neighbourhoods nearby. the more flammable material used in the cladding saved the building contractor a whopping £5000
***government has been tory for the past 7 years and the order of the day has been austerity. public services have been cut to the bone and so has local authority funding. social housing managers who often work for subcontracted private providers paid by the council have a huge case load. they are encouraged to spend less and less time on health and safety (including fire safety) and more on asking intrusive questions about people’s jobs and incomes because of the tory culture of dividing people into the “deserving and undeserving poor” ie those who work and those who don’t. people on benefits are not prioritised when it comes to housing despite individual circumstances, which is why in grenfell you had 70 year olds with limited mobility living on the 22nd floor.
***uk has probably the most entrenched class system in the world and trashing of the working classes and the poor is almost a national hobby for some people. right-wing tabloid media is extremely powerful and they paint a picture of benefit cheats and non-working immigrants even though most poor people in britain work (they are the new working poor who have terrible wages and live in squalid and unaffordable housing) and most BME people were born here, they’re not immigrants
***if you are poor you are largely voiceless and meaningless to this neoliberal tory government. the tenants had written letters raising concerns about fire safety and in response were threatened with legal action. of course they couldn’t respond because tories have cut legal aid because of… yes, austerity. meanwhile tory ministers have been sitting on reports about fire safety in council flats including one from a coroner of a case where six people died in a housing block in south london in 2009. the prime minister didn’t meet the people affected at the scene and the response has generally been very poor. local council has been nowhere to be seen and the donations have come from ordinary people – proper working class solidarity in the face of state that treats them with utter contempt.
TL;DR: austerity kills, gentrification kills, indifference kills. people want justice, they are angry. why did up to 150 people die? this was preventable – it’s scandalous, horrific. it’s like poor people’s lives don’t matter in britain – a hurricane katrina moment for the uk. so please watch videos of THE PEOPLE, poor and working class londoners, who are suffering and expressing anger. don’t listen to theresa may, tories and the bbc trying to sanitise the story. this has everything to do with inequality, poverty, race and most of all CLASS. make those people visible again and help us change things because honestly this is the breaking point and we don’t need people spreading a false narrative abroad. cheers, peace out
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