Rafic and Omar, New Orleans Mississippi Trip South

 

Change!

If you do not change, events will change around you; the excellence of yesterday could be the disaster of tomorrow if you do not appreciate and embrace change!

Change is much more pleasant when you go to it; not when it surprises you.

AGENDA RESETTING!

The long established agenda setting function of the media is changing however, not in the direction that the media desire! Social media are taking over in resetting the agenda. The new social media are defining the salience and pertinence of events.

Human v. Criminal

To do wrong is human; to accuse somebody else of your wrong doing is criminal!

A View

Optimism defines the difference between milestones and a mile of stones! Abdul K. Sinno

On teaching: tips for colleagues

•Listen to students and they will teach you how to teach them.

•Remember and tell your students: No body knows everything, however, every question can be researched and this is their role and, of course, yours.

•If you do not fill in the blanks students will fill in the blanks from their suspicions.

•Play both roles: leader and team player: a leader is a team player.


•Give credit even for little things.

•Remember that kind words can reach further than strong ones even if the situation is frustrating.

•Many times, the weak projects power and arrogance; use counter psychology.

•If an idea is clear to you this does not mean it is necessarily clear to the students.

•Build their self confidence then build their learning strategy. Self confidence is the road to learning, lack of confidence will lead to busy learning!

•Rules should not be written in stone—many times they need to be rewritten—for tomorrow!

•Try different approaches; do not get stuck in the concept: do not fix it if it does not work.

•You will do what you love when you love what you do.


•Involve the weak by asking questions they can answer.

Theme from Selfeese book by A.K. Sinno

A delicious meal is good for one meal time; good health however, is good for a lifetime! One time versus lifetime is your choice--think before you eat.

Outlook

Fear is the other side of courage; both flippable! Abdul Sinno

Selfease or Selfeese

"Slefease" or "Selfeese", (like in Japanese, Chinese, etc) refers to self language: The language I need to communicate with myself! I came up with this term as it clearly connotes and denotes the concept of self communication.
Often times, we succeed in communicating with others but fail to communicate correctly with ourselves--simply because we do not know the optimal language of doing such.
Look out for my forthcoming (within the next few months) book Selfease. A book in behavior modification--do it yourself model.

Adverse Times

Adverse times may not be under your control; however, their impact and magnitude are.

New Term for Circulation by Dr. Sinno

Infoid:

A unit of information.

The Irony of Truth!

In perceptions:

A rumor is the truth until the truth comes out--

Irony of Time

Oftentimes, the present rewrites history--unfairly!

In support of the National Meth Awareness Day

Do Math NOT Meth.

Visit my new site

My book "Treasures of the Mississippi: Panoramas & Poetic Reflections" is being introduced to the market. You may want to view samples of the book by visiting:

www.TreasuresOfTheMississippi.com.

The book includes panoramas and personal impressions on the Mississippi from St. Paul to St. Louis

More reflections

The more you are successful, the more enemies you will have--those who are failures!

Many times we see the water but do not see the river. We may see the buildings, but do not see the town. We may see colors and shapes, but miss to see the beauty they form!

Use Your Imagination: Three Birds....

Photography is a Reflective Vision!

My son, Rafic, took this picture of me candidly as I was capturing the beauty of Dubuque, Iowa romancing the Mississippi River.