Rory Spicer

NC DPI SIS Professional Learning Section Chief, Mom to 3 great young adults, Dog & Cat mom to Woody & Chauncy 👩🏻‍🏫👨‍💼👩‍🔧🐶 🐱 ❤️

[Rory Spicer @RorySpicer]

The NC DPI SIS Professional Learning Team is Ready to Soar with Infinite Campus to bring you the new NCSIS!
#ncdpidtl#infinitecampus#ncsis#ncties2024

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The NC DPI SIS Professional Learning Team is all smiles after traveling this week for the Digital Leaders Exchange to share updates about the new NC SIS! Special thanks to Charlie Kratsch, CEO of Infinite Campus, for being our special guest! @ncdpiDTL
#ncsis#infinitecampus

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@TPerry126 @CumberlandCoSch @ncdpiDTL Thank you Dr Perry ❤️

[Rory Spicer @RorySpicer]

Having an amazingly time talking about the new NC SIS at the DLE! @ncdpiDTL
#infinitecampus#ncsis

[Cami Narron @imac104]

Awesome turnouts to Digital Leaders Exchange, Monday at Buncombe County Schools and Tuesday at Statesville County Schools. The New SIS Professional Learning team @ncdpiDTL ! Come join us tomorrow at Harnett County Schools! @Delta398 , @tlvfan , @RorySpicer , @FoilErin

[Rory Spicer @RorySpicer]

Thank you to the CCS Data Managers & PowerSchool Team for the recognition today. I love y’all and am so honored to have worked with you! ❤️
I will see you soon as we get READY for the new NC SIS.
#CCSDataManagersRock
#changeisgood#infinitecampus2024

[Rory Spicer @RorySpicer]

The NC DPI Professional Learning Team is having a great week learning from the awesome Infinite Campus trainers. We are excited about the new NC SIS! @ncdpiDTL
#infinitecampus

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@JonGordon11 ❤️❤️❤️

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

Comment “🙏” if you agree!

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@JonGordon11 🙏

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

NO FEAR IN THE NEW YEAR

23 years ago, I looked out into the Atlantic Ocean on New Year's Day with fear in my heart and uncertainty in my life. I had been fired from a dot com company two weeks earlier with only two weeks of severance, no insurance for my two young children and only two months of savings in the bank. My wife and I had just invested every dollar we had and even took out a second mortgage on our home and $20,000 on a credit card to open what would be the first Moe’s Southwest Grill in Florida.

The restaurant was set to open January 13th and we had no earthly idea how we would pay our home mortgage and other bills since I planned on keeping my salary and job while my managers built the restaurant business. Now, it was New Years Day and I had no job, no salary and a restaurant opening that at worst would fail miserably or at best take a year to be profitable.

I thought of all this as I prepared to jump into the icy cold water-to take a symbolic plunge that this would be the year of NO FEAR. Regardless of the circumstances I was facing, this would be the year where I would trust and go for it. This would be the year I would be bold in actions and faith. No longer could I do it alone. Now I needed a miracle and I decided to act as if my future depended on me and pray like it depended on God.

By jumping into the ocean I was declaring that no longer will I allow fear to cut off the flow of abundant and positive energy in my life. No longer will I allow fear to paralyze me. Instead of fear I would trust.

Now, 23 years later, I jumped into the ocean once again on New Year's Day. It has become my yearly ritual - to remind myself to follow my passion, live life to the fullest, surrender and to stay one step ahead of the fear that hovers around me.

And as I take my leap into the ocean I want to invite you to jump in with me. Perhaps not in the ocean but in the depths of your mind. This jump doesn't necessarily require water but rather a leap of faith in your belief system and a shift in your mindset. The antidote to fear is trust and it is only a thought away.

No one is going to push you over the chasm of struggle to the life that you want. God will nudge you but you must take the leap. You must make this jump in your mind and then with your actions. You must make this jump with trust, determination and faith.

After all, they don't call it a leap of fear. They call it a "leap of faith" for a reason.

You will always feel fear. Everyone will. But your trust must be bigger than your fear. The bigger your trust the smaller your fear becomes. And the more you trust the more you become a conduit for miracles. I know. A consulting project presented itself out of the blue and we were able to pay our mortgage. A check came in the mail, the right opportunities came our way and somehow, some way my family and I were carried. A year after the restaurant opened I started writing which eventually lead to me writing books, speaking and doing the work I do now.

Maybe 2023 wasn't a great year for you but I believe the New Year represents a fresh start and presents a new opportunity to create the life and career you want. All you have to do is jump in with all that you are and all that you wish to become. I wish you an amazing 2024 and I'm sending positive energy your way.

-Jon

P.S. People often ask me what happened to my restaurant. Well, thankfully I eventually opened 4 restaurants and sold them 19 years ago knowing it was time to focus 100% on writing. That was another big leap of faith that lead to me writing 28 books (with others soon on the way). Thank you for your support and for sharing this message with others.

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@JonGordon11 Change

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

You are loved. You matter. You are here to make a positive diffference in the world.

👆🏻No matter what else happens today, remember this (and remind others of these things too).

[Rory Spicer @RorySpicer]

Wellness Wednesday Tip! Positive self-talk!
#ccsdatamanagersrock

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Please congratulate the 2nd group of Data Managers & Back-Up Data Managers in the 23-24 school year to complete New Data Manager Training! These Premiere Professionals attended 5 days of training to prepare them to serve the students and staff of CCS.
#ccspremiereprofessionals

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

It’s Monday! Today let’s:

1. Attack this day with enthusiasm
2. Love, serve, care
3. Be thankful
4. Replace “Have to” with “Get To”
5. Be a blessing to others
6. Lead positive
7. See opportunities in our challenges
8. Give our best
9. Focus on your WHY
10. Play to win

[Rory Spicer @RorySpicer]

Wellness Wednesday reminder...be kind to yourself and others! Our CCS Data Managers are the best!

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Thankful Thursday! We are so thankful for our CCS Data Managers and are blessed to work with the best! 😊

[Rory Spicer @RorySpicer]

Yes! Life-long learning is the 🔑 to success!

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

Want to know a key to success?
👉🏻 Don’t think you know it all. See yourself as a life-long learner who is always seeking ways to learn, grow and improve.
👉🏻 See everyone as a teacher and learn from everyone you meet.
👉🏻 Don’t focus on where you’ve been. Focus on where you are and where you are going.
👉🏻 Make your life and work a quest for excellence. Every day ask how I can be better today than I was yesterday?
👉🏻 Make your next work your best work.

[Rory Spicer @RorySpicer]

We learned a lot and made some great connections at the NC SIS 2023 Conference! Excited to share our knowledge with our fabulous CCS Data Managers!
#premiereprofessionals#ccsdatamanagersrock @TPerry126 @CCSSuptConnelly @CumberlandCoSch