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How We React to Teaching Profession Affects Our Mood, Self-image, Life.
I’m not a newbie to negativity. I was negative before, furious in my desire to diminish my self-worth based on the work I assumed I couldn’t do or didn’t have the experience to do correctly. And yes, perfectionism helped to dig a huge hole I was burried in. I was lucky to meet a mentor who shifted my perspective on many things and pointed me to the direction that I may choose to go if I want to be truly happy in anything I do. Such a transformation of viewpoint goes through ups and downs. You don’t stop stressing out all of a sudden, profession does not transform into an…
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What Do You Do When You Are On The Brink of Quitting Your Teaching Job?
Hey! I’ve been there, so I know how it feels. It was almost two years ago when I was sitting in my cars crying, talking on the phone with one of my colleagues. “I don’t think I want to come back! It’s just too much!” I meant every single word, and back then it was entirely clear to me I was facing a problem I had to deal with. Teaching can overtake everything if you allow it to happen. It can drain you and set you on the way to growing anxiety and stress. But this is the truth: you will have to take steps to either make your teaching…
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Transformational Books.
In this post, I describe the books that were transformational to my life and my personality. Thanks to these books, I am a different person, mother, teacher. They are not for teachers and by teachers. In fact, the majority of my reading is not about my profession. I keep work separate from my spiritual get-away. However, these books made me a much happier teacher and a person. Why? It’s all about waking up one day and putting things in perspective. It’s about you breaking the circle of being sick and tired of having no things to look forward to. It’s about liberation, laughing at yourself, leaving the couch and stepping…
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Is Teaching Sustainable For Your Lifestyle?
I have been a teacher for two years, and I have been ferociously fighting the urge to take school work home. For some odd reason, while still being a teacher, I found it extremely weird to bring work home. You see, I love freedom. I love that at home I can indulge in doing the things that are not related to my job. I have recently understood the importance of doing nothing while giving yourself time to relax, process ideas, be in the moment for you, your family. And that was quite a shift from the mentality I had two years ago. Although I rarely took school work…
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There Are Things You Cannot Control In Education, So Stop Worrying About Them.
As a new teacher, you have naïve expectations about what your classroom would look like, how your students would behave, how you would teach, and how things would work for you. I’m sorry to be a party pooper, but you are wrong, and you will fail. On top of that, if you don’t adapt your mind and teaching, you will fail again. Whoever is not or was not a teacher by vocation will never understand the fear and anxiety of facing twenty-five adolescents staring in your face, judging every move of yours, testing your integrity, emotional stamina, and knowledge. I’ve been there, and I failed, and I know now…
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Can Teaching Ruin Your Marriage?
Yes, it can. I have recently listened to the podcast episode “What to do when teaching is ruining your marriage” by Angela Watson. This was one of many episodes that made me relate and say, “Oh my! It’s not just in my head! Teacher overwhelm is real, and it does affect relationships if not taken seriously. ” I can relate to so many discussions led by Angela on her podcast. This platform actually became the first that helped me validate my good and bad experiences as a teacher. Those moments and hours of stress that I thought I had been experiencing on my own suddenly became shared by thousands of…
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The Power Of The Compound Effect.
Disclosure: There are some affiliate links below (I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post), but these are all products I highly recommend. I won’t put anything on this page that I haven’t verified and/or personally used. I have recently read the book “The Compound Effect” by Darren Hardy and was blown away by the takeaways that connected the dots in my personal and professional life. According to Hardy, the Compound Effect is “the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices.” Every day we move one step at a time to our goals if we have those. Some of…
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Handling the Overwhelm in First Years of Teaching and Beyond.
I am sure like me, you have been driving home from work, your head buzzing with what you’ve been trying to digest from the school day, and you had a thought, “Is what I am doing sustainable? Can I continue doing it for year and years?” The answer was probably, “Oh my gosh! It’s insane…” You probably have been waking up early like me at 5:30 a.m. for the fifth day in a row, feeling absolutely exhausted, dragging yourself to the kitchen to gobble your breakfast and empty a cup of coffee into your stomach in less than twenty minutes. You probably felt like calling off sick, but then you…
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How to fight impostor syndrome.
In this post, I am going to share four tips about how to fight impostor syndrome. Most commonly impostor syndrome is defined as a psychosomatic (syn.: psychological, stress-related, irrational) pattern in which people doubt their accomplishments and have persistent, often internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud.” I hope these tips will help you learn something more about you and the journey you might have ahead of you. In my second year in a public school system in the US, I understood one critical thing: all the teachers, whether you are a beginner or a spiced, experienced one, – all of us can relate in one way or another.…
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Confidence Quotes for Powerful Women.
“Fake it until you become it,” – I heard and read about it so many times but was never truly able to understand the meaning. The part about “faking” didn’t quite make any sense, and it was not appealing to me. Nevertheless, in social and professional situations I would quite often spot incredible confidence radiated by people, and then I would overhear that those confidence-radiating individuals were somewhat lost or knowing as much about what was going on as other lost people. I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.Madonna This idea about people with confidence came to me again in…
