Angela Maiers shares her favorite thoughts regarding education, leadership, and showing people that THEY MATTER!

1. #YOUMATTER
As told by Angela Maiers

2. These two words can
change your mood.
They can change your mind.
They can your heart.
These two words can change lives
and CHANGE THE WORLD –
if we understand them and
we leverage them in the right way.
You Matter
#Choose2Matter
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3. We were created for
SIGNIFICANCE
and one of the most dangerous
things that can happen to us
as individuals, as organizations
and as communities –
is to get the feeling that
we don’t matter.
#Choose2Matter
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4. All students say the same thing
about their favorite teachers:
#Choose2Matter
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It’s the small things you do
that mean the most.
That is what they remember.

5. When you tell
your story
you give people
permission,
and the courage,
to tell their story.
#Choose2Matter
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6. Every second somewhere
in the world a GENIUS is born.
They come to us with a dream.
A destiny and a desire
to make an impact.
Their words, their ideas have
the power to move and
motivate strangers,
the power to rattle the skies
and shake the moon.
#Choose2Matter
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7. Commit to fighting your way back
to your five-year-old self.
Fight for your dreams with the
ferocity that you had back then.
#Choose2Matter
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8. Students come to us with an
expectation of contribution.
But they are imprisoned in our
system, which is focused
on consumption.
It’s the act of contribution
that changes us.
In that moment, we realize
that what we have is
exactly what someone else
in the world needs.
#Choose2Matter
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9. #Choose2Matter
Somewhere along the way
we learn to withhold
our genius,
to not dream audaciously,
to not dare greatly.
We’ve been told
we’re not enough,
that we don’t matter. Somehow,
we believe this.
We have to change that belief,
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
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10. Today’s students see it as their
moral obligation to not be
passive observers in this plan.
They see a problem in the world
and they ask,
What can we do about this?
Our students want and
need to use their talents,
their genius and their passion
to do meaningful work.
Work that matters.
#Choose2Matter
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11. Bravery is a choice. Brave is strong. Brave is hard.
Brave is really, really uncomfortable.
You can be courageous or you can be comfortable,
but you cannot be both.
You have to choose.
@
#Choose2Matter

12. I want you to ask the
fiercest questions you have
been up until this point
afraid to ask.
When someone says,
'That's impossible, you're just
one person' . . .
I want you to say,
'Phew, maybe I can do this.'
#Choose2Matter
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13. Every person you meet;
every person you know shares these needs from
deep within:
the NEED to be seen
the NEED to be recognized
the NEED to be honored
the NEED to matter.
Today is the day to let them know how much.
#Choose2Matter
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14. If you don't
first secure
students' hearts,
you don't
have a shot
at their brains.
#Choose2Matter
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