Today’s Mandala Message: Teach Others
This week I’m working through the last principle, Principle #64: Empower Yourself by Empowering Others of Jack Canfield’s book “The Success Principles”. I set my intention today to ponder how I can teach others what I have learned. Canfield state: “One of the most powerful ways to learn anything is to teach it to others. It forces you to clarify your ideas, confront inconsistencies in your own thinking, and more closely walk your talk. But more importantly it requires you to read, study, and speak the information over and over again. The resulting repetition reinforces your own learning.”
The idea of teaching has been in my blood for as long as I can remember. In my youth I wanted to be a math teacher. In my 20s I earned a music education degree…unfortunately I didn’t do anything with it in the traditional sense. Years after I earned my computer science degree, I taught computers at a small business college. Later still, I taught web design at a community college. In the last 15 years I’ve taught some art classes and mandala drawing classes…both in my shop and at a community college.
With all that teaching, I’ve come to the conclusion that I prefer sharing what I know in a less formal way through videos, blog postings, social media, and the like. Teaching in the traditional way, at least for me, is exhausting, and it’s usually only for less than 10 people at a time. By doing it the way I would prefer, it will allow me to reach more people and a broader audience where they can learn on their own time and at their own pace.
So that’s my plan for 2024: to share what I know in a more efficient, simpler, and broader way. I’m not totally clear on how exactly that’s going to look or when I’m going to start…for now I at least have the idea and I plan to run with it.
A good mindfulness practice would be consider ways you could teach others what you have learned.
So how about you? What’s one thing you’ve learned that you could teach other people right now? Would it be in a more traditional educational way or more informal? Is it something you can share as “tips” or “how to’s” online?
‘Teaching
— Aristotle
is the highest form
of understanding.’
Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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