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This was the first installment…. Chapter One of How Full is Your Bucket discusses how negativity can kill businesses, how it makes people less productive, more likely to have accidents, be sick, and take more sick days, run off customers. I believe this is true. I believe having had an empty bucket for so long now is literally killing me. At one point, it describes a prisoner of war that just comes in and lies down and just gives up, to die two days later.
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ef1957c3... 2y ago

That prisoner of war is exactly how I feel most days these days, and I don’t like it. Although this book is geared toward businesses, and how it lowers productivity in the business world, I know this is even more true in the field of education. We teachers have worked for so long without anyone filling our buckets. It feels like everyone, students, parents, our own families, society as a whole are dipping out of our buckets as we are expected to give to our students constantly

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ef1957c3... 2y ago

as we are blamed for society's ills, and not one person ever thinks to put even one drop into our buckets. The last three years have been a very negative time for me and for many of my colleagues as well. Personally, I have dealt with the death of both my parents, the assumption of a responsibility I knew I had to do, but wasn’t emotionally prepared for, and no time to grieve. I have also dealt with the breakdown and betrayal of my body with injuries and chronic crippling illness,