Bad Example

Okay, bad example... How many times have you heard this? Well, if I had a nickel for every time I have heard it, I would be sipping alcohol out of a pineapple on the beach for a living.

I teach kids about culinary. I often tell them that there will be times when a recipe doesn't come out right and when it happens, they remember that more often than the triumphs they get. Kids can be brutal with their teasing.

While a bad example is not the way we wish things to go, but they often teach us more than a good one.  If we never fall down, we will never learn to get up.  Never making a mistake will make it so that you will never know how to make correction or receive criticism.

Proper critique language can, at times, but difficult to grasp with the young ones. Lots of people are quick to respond negatively by use of hard language, but this leaves the recipient with little information, and often it can come off as rude.

In another aspect of life, we can use a bad example as motivation.  If you have grown up around the hustlers and criminal elements, their stories can propel you in the opposite direction, if you use it wisely.  You may not yet know what you want to become, but you have in front of you, an example of what not to develop into.

We all stumble and fall, but the best of us, get up and try again. You can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs.