Is your life messy? Are you disorganised, unmotivated or confused? There are lots of resources to help you be a better…you. Yes, you, not someone else. Still you, just better. In reality, most of us (me, too) want to be someone else. Someone completely different. And maybe a lot of the self-help advice out there implies you can be someone else. But as much as try not to be, we are who we are, with the talents and gifts God gave us.
Am I saying we can’t improve? No. We certainly can improve. Do I believe in a fixed mindset? No. I’m a firm believer in growth mindset possibilities.
What I’m suggesting is we work with our capabilities, not against them. Set goals, strive and work hard. Then don’t hate yourself when the slightest little thing goes wrong.
My journey towards teaching is agonisingly slow. But I haven’t given up. A different person could have made the leap from a full-time, non-teaching profession to teaching in much bolder fashion than myself, I’m sure. I, however, continue to muddle along, one stumble after another. If I wanted to go faster who could I blame? Only myself.
What’s next? I’m trying to organise time off from work that fits with the available student teaching slots. I enrolled for the first term of the year at university, but can’t take do any student teaching until the school’s third term. I need to make sure I don’t end up in school/university administration limbo. Luckily, I’m good at resilient mediocrity.