OK, here are some gems from the 2001 Ed Week notebook. I hope that you will not only enjoy them, but will find something that will make your life better, easier, or bring more understanding and insight.
DEEANN P. LUBBERS:
Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Be selective in what you are doing instead of just being busy, busy, busy.
W. JEFFREY MARSHS:
Pres. James E. Faust--Not having the Holy Ghost is like having a body without an immune system.
ROBERT J. MATTHEWS:
Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley--Given what we have and what we know, we ought to be a better people.
JULIE LYNE DYMOCK:
Pres. Ezra Taft Benson--If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgments more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
Scriptures and prayer are like the home keys on a typewriter. They won't let you type a wrong message.
Prado's law--20% of the effort yields 80% of the benefit.
CLYDE J. WILLIAMS:
This life is a test, so some of the questions go unanswered.
MERRILEE BOYACK:
Neal A. Maxwell: Mormon malaise--going nowhere, but doing it very anxiously.
Gordon B. Hinckley--It's time to do what's right regardless of the consequences that may follow.
If there's one strength of Christ's we need to emulate the most, putting others first is it.
R. SCOTT STRONG:
The gospel is about endowing God's children with glory, light, and power.
DONNA B. NIELSEN:
The fall changed work into toil to teach what it takes to redeem the world.
All work is potentially sacred because through it we can serve God.
Fanatic-anyone who cares about something more than you do.
MICHAEL W. ALLRED:
Spencer W. Kimball--Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication. (having the spirit with us constantly is like a fish living in water...he doesn't notice the constant flow of water)
BECKY GREER:
People who are sedentary have a greater risk of heart disease and cancer than people who smoke.
RICHARD K. SCOTT:
Gordon B. Hinckley--I have this one suggestion to offer. If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy and your marriage will go on through eternity.
James E. Faulconer--A poor self-image, like every self-image including a good one, is selfish. To be concerned about self-image, good or bad, is also to place oneself at the center.
Only the selfless will be married in the next life.
BERNELL L. CHRISTENSEN:
What determines the success of a marriage is whether the couple has skills to resolve differences.
HOYT W. BREWSTER:
An apostle's burden: to see what was ahead and have members not listen to you.
DOREEN S. WOOLLEY:
Not everything worth doing is worth doing well.
If it's barely worth doing, barely do it.
Never use a child's passion as punishment. It might be the only thing holding him together. (the topic of the class was children who are bright)
BRENT L. TOP and BRUCE CHADWICK:
It's a veil not a wall...we'll receive help from loved ones gone before (topic here was parenting)
K. DOUGLAS BASSETT:
The Lord takes the way we treat each other personally.
Our leaders are called to test our discipleship, not to lead us (the Lord could do that).
To go with a lesser plan and be united is better than to go with a better plan and not be united.
There's no right way to do something wrong.
We give our life to Christ not for a smooth ride, but for a successful end. ~Pastor Doug Batchelor
Sunday, August 16, 2009
There's no place like Ed Week. There's no place like Ed Week. There's no place like Ed Week...
...darn! I'm still in Fallon.
I can't believe I'm not in Provo at this time. Like I was in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008. 2005 was the only year I haven't been... I've been twice without my sister, but this year I just didn't want to go without her.
I tell myself that I've been often enough and I don't want to spend the money. And now I've been out of town so much this summer that the thought of driving anywhere further away than Reno makes me want to scream.
So, I've decided to post highlights from my notebooks so I can savor past Ed Week experiences. My notebooks are one of my most treasured possessions. What I will post are quotes, thoughts, and info that really impressed me.
Ed Week 2000
GLENN I. LATHAM:
Don't suppose that short-term compliance achieved using coercive means leads to long-term goals. Coercion produces only short-term compliance followed by long-term losses.
Say or do to your children only what you want said and done to your grandchildren.
Don't allow children to establish our level of civility. Children are low. Our job is to civilize them.
Children will be children--that's why adults should be adults.
DOUGLAS E. BRINLEY:
While sixth-tenths or three-fourths of the Saints will keep the commandments, the curse and judgments of God will not come upon us (Brigham Young JD 10:335-6)
...the Lord will take care of the Saints; it is our business to be Saints. (John Taylor JD 22:141-2)
from Denise's notes of BARBARA BARRINGTON JONES' class:
A woman gets her self-esteem from her relationships--especially with her husband. A man gets his self-esteem from his work.
Women have a relationship with their house. "Honey, please fix it" is important.
Your mate is Heavenly Father's sandpaper.
Man said, "There's 80% of me that's good and 20% that's not so good. If you dwell on the 80% we'll be happy--on the 20%, we'll be divorced."
The more you love a man, the more they'll change themselves. They need to feel respected and loved.
Brigham Young said we need to make ourselves beautiful for our husbands and this is not pride--that would be like denying the beauty in the place of the gods.
MERRILEE A. BOYACK:
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. --James Baldwin
Brother Murphy's law: Anything bad can and will happen at Church.
You will almost always make better decisions for your child than he would make for himself. --John Rosemond
John Rosemond--Self-sufficiency is the yardstick of self-esteem. The road to self-sufficiency is paved with frustration, disappointment, failure, falling flat on one's face, and other equally "unhappy" experiences. We cannot afford to deny children these things.
Dorothy B--In successful parenting you literally try to work yourself out of a job.
BAHR, LOVELESS, and MANWARING:
Housework is about building a family, not taking care of a house.
We are not our childrens' bosses; they are not our employees. Salvation is not given to the most efficient mother.
KENNETH W. MATHESON:
If you get chocolate all over your hands, you are eating it too slowly.
Quit using the past as the velcro to justify inadequacies now.
We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions.
ANGELLE ANDERSON:
Jenkin Lloyd Jones--Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed.
Most putts don't drop. Most beef is tough. Most children grow up to be just people. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration. Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise.
Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.
The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.
Elder M. Russell Ballard--We must recognize our limitations. No one can do everything. When you have done the best you can, be satisfied and don't look back and second guess how you could have done more. Be at peace with yourself for what you didn't do. Congratulate yourself for what you did.
Most kids get into trouble because they don't know how to get out of it. (Use role playing to teach them what to do in different situations)
SCOTT C. MARSH:
We are more likely to share money with a child who saves. Is Heavenly Father any different?
LINDA DASTRUP:
Telestial choice-thinking of ourselves
Terrestrial choice-social choice
Celestial choice-spiritual choice
JULIE LYNE DYMOCK:
"What makes a talent great is the end to which it is directed--to glorify God and serve mankind." Bill L. Hill (sculptor of Logan Tabernacle Pioneer Monument)
Growth always comes outside the comfort zone.
Do what you love because what you love is an indication of your talents and gifts.
Neal A Maxwell--I know the celestial criteria measures service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.
Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley--Whatever your calling, it is as fraught with the same kind of opportunity to accomplish good as is mine.
J. LLOYD ELDREDGE:
Poor readers did better if reading difficult material with assistance than poor readers who read interesting, but simple, material matched to their "instructional reading levels."
I can't believe I'm not in Provo at this time. Like I was in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008. 2005 was the only year I haven't been... I've been twice without my sister, but this year I just didn't want to go without her.
I tell myself that I've been often enough and I don't want to spend the money. And now I've been out of town so much this summer that the thought of driving anywhere further away than Reno makes me want to scream.
So, I've decided to post highlights from my notebooks so I can savor past Ed Week experiences. My notebooks are one of my most treasured possessions. What I will post are quotes, thoughts, and info that really impressed me.
Ed Week 2000
GLENN I. LATHAM:
Don't suppose that short-term compliance achieved using coercive means leads to long-term goals. Coercion produces only short-term compliance followed by long-term losses.
Say or do to your children only what you want said and done to your grandchildren.
Don't allow children to establish our level of civility. Children are low. Our job is to civilize them.
Children will be children--that's why adults should be adults.
DOUGLAS E. BRINLEY:
While sixth-tenths or three-fourths of the Saints will keep the commandments, the curse and judgments of God will not come upon us (Brigham Young JD 10:335-6)
...the Lord will take care of the Saints; it is our business to be Saints. (John Taylor JD 22:141-2)
from Denise's notes of BARBARA BARRINGTON JONES' class:
A woman gets her self-esteem from her relationships--especially with her husband. A man gets his self-esteem from his work.
Women have a relationship with their house. "Honey, please fix it" is important.
Your mate is Heavenly Father's sandpaper.
Man said, "There's 80% of me that's good and 20% that's not so good. If you dwell on the 80% we'll be happy--on the 20%, we'll be divorced."
The more you love a man, the more they'll change themselves. They need to feel respected and loved.
Brigham Young said we need to make ourselves beautiful for our husbands and this is not pride--that would be like denying the beauty in the place of the gods.
MERRILEE A. BOYACK:
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. --James Baldwin
Brother Murphy's law: Anything bad can and will happen at Church.
You will almost always make better decisions for your child than he would make for himself. --John Rosemond
John Rosemond--Self-sufficiency is the yardstick of self-esteem. The road to self-sufficiency is paved with frustration, disappointment, failure, falling flat on one's face, and other equally "unhappy" experiences. We cannot afford to deny children these things.
Dorothy B--In successful parenting you literally try to work yourself out of a job.
BAHR, LOVELESS, and MANWARING:
Housework is about building a family, not taking care of a house.
We are not our childrens' bosses; they are not our employees. Salvation is not given to the most efficient mother.
KENNETH W. MATHESON:
If you get chocolate all over your hands, you are eating it too slowly.
Quit using the past as the velcro to justify inadequacies now.
We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions.
ANGELLE ANDERSON:
Jenkin Lloyd Jones--Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed.
Most putts don't drop. Most beef is tough. Most children grow up to be just people. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration. Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise.
Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.
The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.
Elder M. Russell Ballard--We must recognize our limitations. No one can do everything. When you have done the best you can, be satisfied and don't look back and second guess how you could have done more. Be at peace with yourself for what you didn't do. Congratulate yourself for what you did.
Most kids get into trouble because they don't know how to get out of it. (Use role playing to teach them what to do in different situations)
SCOTT C. MARSH:
We are more likely to share money with a child who saves. Is Heavenly Father any different?
LINDA DASTRUP:
Telestial choice-thinking of ourselves
Terrestrial choice-social choice
Celestial choice-spiritual choice
JULIE LYNE DYMOCK:
"What makes a talent great is the end to which it is directed--to glorify God and serve mankind." Bill L. Hill (sculptor of Logan Tabernacle Pioneer Monument)
Growth always comes outside the comfort zone.
Do what you love because what you love is an indication of your talents and gifts.
Neal A Maxwell--I know the celestial criteria measures service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.
Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley--Whatever your calling, it is as fraught with the same kind of opportunity to accomplish good as is mine.
J. LLOYD ELDREDGE:
Poor readers did better if reading difficult material with assistance than poor readers who read interesting, but simple, material matched to their "instructional reading levels."
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