My Mantra for the New School Year: Focus on the Good
I just had to rewrite this blog post because I was not meeting my goal/mantra. My goal is to focus on the good because the majority of the people that I work with (parents, students, teachers) are good, but I tend to let one bad experience weigh heavily on me. In trying to give an example of this, I found myself ultra focused on a bad situation. So obviously, it is going to be a challenge for me to meet my goal of enjoying the good things in my career. My main issue last year was two parents/students that did not agree with a) hybrid learning or b) responsibilities like coming to class on time and participating in class. I let these two situations overshadow hundreds of positive ones. I'd go home feeling defeated. I had 118 other sets of parents who were very supportive. I allowed these two parents to ruin the positive feedback that I got from everyone else. So this is my goal for the new year. Focus more on the good than the...