Middle School with Mr. Olsen Travis Olsen

Having a skill or gift card isn't useful, if you never use it. 

Complaining gets you nowhere. 

Everyone makes mistakes.  The "smart" people learn from them.  

Reading a word once doesn't make you understand it. 

Eating one salad doesn't make you skinny.  

Eating one cookie doesn't make you fat. 

Getting one problem wrong doesn't make you dumb.  

Getting one problem right doesn't make you a genius. 

Everything we do, everything we learn, everything we earn, takes time. 

I talked to a school administrator who told me in his first year he was not very confident in what he was doing.  But as the year progressed and he took notes and paid more attention, he said the end of the year felt a lot different.  The lesson? Everyone gets scared at first, but we keep practicing and keep growing.  

The world doesn't revolve around us.  We need to adapt, change, and evolve into something better.