Cost of Ambition
"Create the life you want, and it may inspire others to do the same, even if their journey and destination look different." - George Couros There are no two ways about it, I'm old now. How I look at the world has drastically changed. As it should. Our life experiences SHOULD change us. Hopefully for the better. I look at the person I was at the beginning of my 25 year career and I remember a very ambitious and hard working young man. He was very ignorant (I could use the word "green" if I cared about sounding too harsh) about a lot of things and was hyper-focused on success. I defined success then as proving I belonged in the education profession and that I brought value to the team. I was a non-traditional teacher. I did not have an education degree and my first day in front of students wa...