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The power of belief

Hi Guys. How was your day? Good? Amazing! I wish we could talk back and forth like Messenger. Anyway... once upon a time, there was an egg carton and in the egg carton was an egg named Timothy. Now Timothy had a couple egg friends living with him in the egg carton, but there was also an egg bully. The egg bully was always really negative and mean to the other eggs. One day, unfortunately, the egg carton got placed on the other side of the counter. The egg bully and Timothy had to figure out how to get back to the other side of the counter but there was a huge gap separating the two pieces of counter. Egg Head, the bully egg, said there's no way we're going to get across it and I don't even want to try. Meanwhile, Timothy was thinking, this is the only way back and I have to try! So Timothy believed, gathered all of his courage, and then ran as fast as he could and jumped the gap. Now it was Egg Head's turn. He ran really fast, but as he was about to jump he thought "no way" so when he did launch himself into the air he didn't jump as far as he needed to. Egg Head fell to the kitchen floor. I guess you can say he ended up a little scrambled! The moral of the story is that you GOT TO BELIEVE!  For instance, when we learned board breaking, we had the mass and velocity to break the board but if you had self-doubt there was no way you could possibly do it.  Think of self-doubt like a hundred pound weight holding you down. You have to leave that weight behind and take off with the power of belief. Force will not get you through your troubles, it's the belief that makes the mile. -- Mr. Tomatos. 

3/4/2024
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