Equipping young women professionals with young families to find fulfillment, contentment and joy as mothers and home makers without losing sight of who they are as women.

Volume 02, Issue 21: Teaching Profits The Teacher
 
As I sit under great minds through books, conferences and other learning avenues, I am disciplining myself to take note of what I want to apply, what I want to change and what I want to teach. I figured there’s no point of interacting with life transforming information only to remain the same. It’s a waste of time.
 
The things I am learning inspire me so much, I can’t keep them to myself. A teacher yearns to share her knowledge. But I am not satisfied with just knowledge. I want change. Whenever we pick a material to read, our main objective should be nothing short of learning something to change our lives. Knowledge does not change us. It only does when we apply it.
 
Passing on our learning to others clarifies our learning and commits us to change. When you pursue knowledge with the objective of teaching others, you work harder than when you learn just to benefit yourself. In the process, you get more out of your learning.
 
We learn better when we teach. When we learn with the intent of self-change and passing our learning to others, our concentration is enhanced and the propensity to apply our learning intensified.
 
Although it is done to benefit others, teaching profits the teacher. It clarifies your learning and commits you to change more than anything else. Teaching continually lifts the teacher to a higher level.
 
Since it is hypocritical to teach what we are not applying in our lives, teaching keeps us accountable. Teaching what we know commits us to live out what we have learnt. The burden of being a credible example of the principles we promote accentuates as we teach.
 
Live with the awareness that you are here to add value to people. As you interact with people, let your attitude be to teach them something you know in order to help them come up higher.
 
Use your gifts and experience not just to accomplish your goals, but to help release a dream in someone else. Find something you are knowledgeable and passionate about and teach it to someone.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Lillian Chebosi