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<blockquote data-quote="herofan" data-source="post: 1522307" data-attributes="member: 17843"><p>It appears some people understand what I'm talking about. It sounds like TexasBred has balance. TCRanch wrote about being exhausted. I always considered working with my students to be my main focus as far as a job. After all, I'm working with human beings, and that is serious business. If I drag in tired every morning because I have so many other irons in the fire when not at school, or if my mind is wandering about all my other tasks I need to be doing, how is that giving justice to the kids? I also couldn't be more proud of my own kids. As I wrote in another thread, they haven't caused the first bit of trouble or done anything to negatively impact their lives. I can't help but think it's because I actually spent some quality time with them over the years and wasn't always caught up in a fog of busyness.</p><p> </p><p>bball wrote about balance. That's really what I'm describing. It seems like regardless of the topic anymore, few people understand balance or middle ground. One would think I wrote that I was jobless, slept all day, got a government check, had starving kids, and ate in the soup line every day, but that is far from what I wrote; I just don't go around like my pants are on fire all the time and like the world may end if I'm not busy all the time.</p><p></p><p>The world certainly needs leaders, inventors, and curious minds to solve problems, but I realize most people aren't that. If most people I see who are so "busy" all the time achieved half as much as they think they do, they would truly be the next Thomas Edison, but they are usually far from it. In college, I had a few professors over the years give what we called "busy work." It's not something particularly meaningful, but just something to fill a block of time so they can say the students are busy. That's what I see with a lot of busy people. If they were on the brink of a new invention or a cure for a disease, I could understand, but half the stuff they are doing won't amount to a hill of beans in the long run, but at least they are busy. I'll just spend my allotted time for "busy work" building relationships and being with my family.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="herofan, post: 1522307, member: 17843"] It appears some people understand what I’m talking about. It sounds like TexasBred has balance. TCRanch wrote about being exhausted. I always considered working with my students to be my main focus as far as a job. After all, I’m working with human beings, and that is serious business. If I drag in tired every morning because I have so many other irons in the fire when not at school, or if my mind is wandering about all my other tasks I need to be doing, how is that giving justice to the kids? I also couldn’t be more proud of my own kids. As I wrote in another thread, they haven’t caused the first bit of trouble or done anything to negatively impact their lives. I can’t help but think it’s because I actually spent some quality time with them over the years and wasn’t always caught up in a fog of busyness. bball wrote about balance. That’s really what I’m describing. It seems like regardless of the topic anymore, few people understand balance or middle ground. One would think I wrote that I was jobless, slept all day, got a government check, had starving kids, and ate in the soup line every day, but that is far from what I wrote; I just don’t go around like my pants are on fire all the time and like the world may end if I’m not busy all the time. The world certainly needs leaders, inventors, and curious minds to solve problems, but I realize most people aren’t that. If most people I see who are so “busy” all the time achieved half as much as they think they do, they would truly be the next Thomas Edison, but they are usually far from it. In college, I had a few professors over the years give what we called “busy work.” It’s not something particularly meaningful, but just something to fill a block of time so they can say the students are busy. That’s what I see with a lot of busy people. If they were on the brink of a new invention or a cure for a disease, I could understand, but half the stuff they are doing won’t amount to a hill of beans in the long run, but at least they are busy. I’ll just spend my allotted time for “busy work” building relationships and being with my family. [/QUOTE]
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