As a college student I look back on the lessons of Habitudes and realize that while they do not help me to understand accounting contribution, margin concepts, or ROI financial equations, they do help to reinforce life skills through images. I plan to start my career as a social entrepreneur soon and have been influenced by the Habitudes lesson called Barn Building. Barn Building articulates the importance of critical transactions. It talks about how you must build a barn before your build a house because you can live in the barn while you build the house. This is a fundamental concept I will use to build any company. The Habitudes concept of Barn Building is the reason why I was able to win a business case competition and a mobile application development contest this past spring semester. By working through each book’s practical life applications, I can honestly say Habitudes has had a major impact on my future. When I came to college I only brought essentials. For me this included just 5 books: my Bible and my 4 Habitudes books given to me in high school. Habitudes can help all students the way it has helped me. It only takes one person to make a difference and that person could be a student you help to receive Habitudes through The Growing Leaders Foundation. “I only brought five books to college - my Bible and four Habitudes books.” Announcing The Growing Leaders Foundation Board of Directors Gregg Capin Partner Capin & Crouse Firm Jeff Henderson Lead Pastor Gwinnett Church Morgan Hill President and Owner Hill & Hill Financial, Inc. Jason Lane Principal Mill Creek High School Dr. Diane Ray Director of Principal & Teacher Initiatives Professional Association of Georgia Educators Jim Reece President and CEO Atlanta Mission David Salyers Vice President, National & Regional Marketing at Chick-fil-A Reflections from a Habitudes Graduate Did you know? Children living in a rural environment are twice as likely to drop out of school than urban children. The Growing Leaders Foundation is committed to breaking financial barriers so that all students can be college and career ready. Matt Poole Junior Finance Major Morehouse College How learning “Barn Building” in high school led a young man to become a social entrepreneur in college
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As a college student I look back on the lessons of Habitudes and realize that while they do not help me to understand accounting contribution, margin concepts, or ROI financial equations, they do help to reinforce life skills through images.
I plan to start my career as a social entrepreneur soon and have been influenced by the Habitudes lesson called Barn Building. Barn Building articulates the importance of critical transactions. It talks about how you must build a barn before your build a house because you can live in the barn while you build the house. This is a fundamental concept I will use to build any company. The Habitudes concept of Barn Building is the reason why I was able to win a business case competition and a mobile application development contest this past spring semester.
By working through each book’s practical life applications, I can honestly say Habitudes has had a major impact on my future.
When I came to college I only brought essentials. For me this included just 5 books: my Bible and my 4 Habitudes books given to me in high school.
Habitudes can help all students the way it has helped me. It only takes one person to make a difference and that person could be a student you help to receive Habitudes through The Growing Leaders Foundation.
“I only brought five books to
college - my Bible and four
Habitudes books.”
Announcing The Growing
Leaders Foundation
Board of DirectorsGregg Capin
Partner Capin & Crouse Firm
Jeff Henderson Lead Pastor
Gwinnett Church
Morgan HillPresident and Owner
Hill & Hill Financial, Inc.
Jason LanePrincipal
Mill Creek High School
Dr. Diane RayDirector of Principal &
Teacher Initiatives Professional Association of
Georgia Educators
Jim ReecePresident and CEO
Atlanta Mission
David SalyersVice President,
National & Regional Marketing at Chick-fil-A
Reflections from a Habitudes Graduate
Did you know? Children living in a rural environment are twice as likely to drop out of school than urban children.
The Growing Leaders Foundation is committed to breaking financial barriers so that all students can be college and career ready.
Matt PooleJunior Finance Major
Morehouse College
How learning “Barn Building” in high school led a young man to become a social entrepreneur in college
Youth With A MissionArusha, Tanzania & Migori, KenyaWill teach Habitudes to students in Tanzania and 20 youth pastors in Kenya.
People reached include widows, orphans and school children.
Youth With a Mission (YWAM) will use Habitudes as curriculum for their course: Principles of Child and Youth Ministry, in Tanzania.
The course is designed to provide students with biblical models for human growth and development, preparing them to work with local children and youth.
YWAM facilitator, Jack Hunt, says, “A major emphasis of the course is on character development, and a practical understanding of the Christian faith applied to all areas of life.”
Area 31 Career Center Indiana Public SchoolsWill teach Habitudes to 200 student ambassadors Next Fall: 1500 students 80% poverty rate in their township57% of students are on free lunch10% of students are on reduced lunch
Student ambassadors will learn character education to compliment their technical education. Teacher, Dedra Andreko, adds that Habitudes meets the educational needs of the center’s students and the staff.
“We believe that with Habitudes we will be able to increase the employability of our students and instill a sense of civic responsibility,” she states. “Career Center students often come to the career center with a stigma such as ‘bad kid’ or the ‘stupid kid’. Despite what others may say about our students, we want all of our students to understand their potential and see the gold inside of them (Golden Buddha).”
Since its launch in May 2013, The Growing Leaders
Foundation has sent Habitudes to schools in
Georgia, Tanzania, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kenya, and Wyoming.
Applications are in... Habitudes are out!
Visit us and give online:TheGrowingLeadersFoundation.org
Conexion Americas Nashville, TN40 teachers will use Habitudes during a month long Latino internship program with juniors and seniors in Metro Nashville Public Schools.
100% of students will be first generation high school graduatesStudents are immigrants from Mexico or children of immigrants from Mexico.
Conexion says, “Our programming is informed by our understanding of the barriers that are unique to undocumented & first generation Latino students – the family dynamics and obligations, gender roles, pressures of being first to graduate, and the difficulties and confusion of navigating a bilingual world. All we have been missing is the leadership curriculum!”
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