Tag: wissam charafeddine

You don’t owe it to anyone to reply to their text messages right away. You have the right to be disconnected.

I don’t belong to the community because I can’t get myself to belong to something small and arbitrary. I belong to humanity.

19% of our time on an average work week is spent on searching for things.

McKinsey Global Institute Study

1 hour a day is spent on average logging into systems.

Study by Hubspot

5 is the average number of applications used by a company to store stuff.

Tips for parents:

Praise the effort not the result.

Say: great training instead of great performance.

Encourage failure.

Ask: how did you fail today and what did you learn about it?

Teach them to tell time and manage it. Put clocks in their rooms.

Schedule outdoor time.

Let them get bored …. please! Boredom is the precursor to creativity. Give them unstructured play time. Give them access to stuff that can play with and create things with…. like tapes and garbage bags and scrap paper.

Have family meetings! Teach them democracy and a way to participate in decision making.

Skills employers say that new graduates are lacking. Check them out. Yes google it.

Maria Dismondy

88% of adolescence saw someone cyberbullied

56% got cyberbullied at least once

1% reported it to a teacher

10% reported it to a parent

30% had suicidal thoughts due to bullying

6% of Michigan students were absent due to not feeling safe at school. 26% of them bullied in school.

#defeatthelabel

“Comparison is the thief of joy”

“Job hopping early in Career is associated with higher incomes. “

Try more of what you want and Quit more of what doesn’t work.

Shoot your reputation or fear in the head if it holds you back.

Align your actions to your goals, and your feelings to your intention.

Hunger is a habit, not a real feeling unless you are in an Ethiopian drought.