Tag Archives: reflection

(#267) You Get to Create the Path

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Steve Piscitelli

We are all artists painting our own lives. While facilitating a Texas faculty resilience workshop, I presented the following R.D. Laing quote to the audience: The range of what we think and do Is limited by what we fail to … Continue reading →

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(#257) Sunsets and Sunrises

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Steve Piscitelli

“You are where I was. And I am where you will be.” This week represents a major life demarcation for me.  After 33 years of classroom teaching, I will be retiring from my college. I am not retiring, however, from my … Continue reading →

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(#255) Did You Make A Difference? How Do You Know?

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Steve Piscitelli

While this blog post speaks specifically to my teaching colleagues, we can all draw inspiration and clarification when we stop and examine what we do. On my campus, we have two weeks of classes and a week of final exams … Continue reading →

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(#246) Are You Bitching or Are You Pitching?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Steve Piscitelli

Do you work (or live) with someone who endlessly pontificates, grouses, grumbles, moans and laments? One of my mentors taught me a valuable lesson near the beginning of my teaching career.  Dr. Veronica Valentine had a simple “rule” if anyone … Continue reading →

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(#235) What Are You Doing For Game Film?

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Steve Piscitelli

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”—Yogi Berra Legendary football coach Paul Brown receives credit for being the first football coach to use game film.  He believed the film would help expose the weaknesses … Continue reading →

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(#227) Action

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Steve Piscitelli

It is often said what we think we become. Let’s take that one step further: What we do we become. Two weeks ago on this blog I introduced three ideas worth practicing in our lives: Awareness, Assumptions, and Actions.  Once … Continue reading →

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(#226) Kaizen: Movement Toward Improvement

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Steve Piscitelli

Assumptions not only invite us to ask questions, they beg for questions. Last week on this blog we examined the importance of awareness.  Do we really know what we do in any given space in our lives? What strategies can help us … Continue reading →

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(#225) Awareness

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Steve Piscitelli

If we think we are the best we can be, then we will never be the best we could have been. On September 27, I have a wonderful opportunity to deliver a TEDx talk in Jacksonville, Florida.  I get fifteen … Continue reading →

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(#184) Gratitude: Appreciating Wonder

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Steve Piscitelli

Life is one choice after another. Why not choose gratitude? The rewards are wonderful. Before class this past Wednesday (day before Thanksgiving) I took out a piece of paper and wrote “Thankful for…” across the top. In a short time, … Continue reading →

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(#181) Knowing—Doing—Being

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Steve Piscitelli

“We are human beings—not human doings.” In a blog on leadership development, Colleen Sharen wrote about the 10/20/70 rule for effectiveness. Simply this means that 10% of leadership development comes from training, 20% from mentoring, and 70% from actually applying … Continue reading →

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