Stop Making Excuses with JeVon McCormick Resilient Schools 31

The Bridging to Resilience conference is about coming together with educators, social workers, health care professionals, religious communities, and other helping professionals to share conversations, ideas, strategies, tools, and connections to help build resilience and heal trauma in our own communities. November 6-8 in Wichita, Kansas. Register to attend this conference today! 
JT McCormick is the Co-Founder of Book in a Box. Email him JT’s interview on the 1 Thing podcast Scaled software company, now a president and CEO of a publishing company, BookinaBox.com No motivational story of someone who stood by him. Pushed through a bad educational system that did not meet his needs. What I quickly learned…There is no geometry on a deposit slip. Mindset, choices, and hard work = success for me. Get up at 4 am. If there’s anything I don’t like in life, it’s up to me to change it. Where did these ideas come from? What would you tell a 10 year old JT? It’s not always what you tell a kid, but more what you show them. 3 of the greatest moments - marriage, birth of children, mentor at-risk youth. First time they got to see an office building. Connecting with kids - What’s wrong with this picture? And this? Shake hands with a firm handshake - when do we teach them this? Manners, a firm handshake, and other small things have served me very well in life. How is there not a life essentials class? Every school a subscription the Forbes 400. 3 avenues out of poverty: 1. Athlete 2. Rapper 3. Drug Dealer Nobody told me the fourth option: entrepreneur. If you are going to think, dream, or set goals Money does not bring happiness. Many children just don’t understand the ways of the world. If you lost it all, what would you do? Put in the time, put in the hard work now. Have your own personal excellence every single day. Show them examples of people who have accomplished great things. Show little girls female executives. Bring the examples in to the schools. I have built a career off of asking questions. There are no dumb questions! No means not right now. How to be a transformative principal? Show kids. Routine is what breeds success I Got There - Book You can’t change the past, but you can change the future