A to Z Challenge

A TO Z OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Teaching and parenting are both works in progress. Not too many decades ago, grown ups used to tell young people to use their brain whenever they made a mistake. As a parent I did not tell my children that and if I were lucky enough to be a teacher, I would not do that either. Now I know enough to understand that not everyone's brains work the same way. I also know that my own brain may or may not work the way it used to. I do try to avoid using things that are harmful for my brain and try to use the things that are good for my brain. 

In eighth grade resource management class, I raised my hand and said "Blessings" when our teacher asked us to give the name of a resource that is useful for us human beings. The kids in the class laughed. The teacher simply asked another student who raised her hand and I guess that girl gave a right answer. I was too upset to even pay attention to the class as I thought that I was told something wrong by my elders. They always told us to get blessings as they would come in handy when there is struggle in life.  As time passed I understood  that blessings are something you believe in and I also understood that you get back what you give, so therefore our elders were not wrong because we got their blessings whenever we did something good for someone else.

Whether it was the eighth grade resource management class or the section of Economics class of resource management the most important thing we learned is how to balance our resources for a good life in every way possible. They taught us how to balance a budget and a checkbook. They taught us how to divide a job among laborers and they taught us how to divide laborers among managers. However, they did not teach us how to understand that balancing our time and energy between our jobs and loved ones is just as important. Our elders told us that nature has a way of balancing the world and we individuals are a part of nature. To me it sounded so utilitarian. I still think that we can do our own job of learning how to figure out our priorities.
  Books have always been a good resource for me. Not the kind that we read in school, but the kind we read to understand people and their problems.